8-Year-Old Belmopan Student Almost Kidnapped
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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics
For the latest news across Belize, visit: http://edition.channel5belize.com/ There is a report of the alleged kidnapping of an eight-year-old student on Monday. It happened in Belmopan while the boy was heading home from school along with his older brother and sister. The children told their mother that they were approached by a man in a white van offering them a ride home. The children refused prompting the abductor to become physical. He attempted to force the young student into the van. Fortunately, the boy and his siblings fought the man who abandoned his objective and fled the scene. The children have been left traumatized in the wake of a frightening ordeal. Today, police told the press that an intensive investigation has been launched into the matter. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports.
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