{"id":11094,"date":"2017-03-10T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/durban-police-search-for-baby-abducted-in-south-africa-car-jacking\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:10:47","slug":"durban-police-search-for-baby-abducted-in-south-africa-car-jacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/durban-police-search-for-baby-abducted-in-south-africa-car-jacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban police search for baby abducted in South Africa &#8216;car-jacking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The one-month-old baby girl who was in a car when it was stolen by thieves in Durban, South Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/CD0A\/production\/_95109425_durbanbaby.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  South African Police Service<figcaption>Image caption                                      The one-month-old baby girl who was abducted when a car was stolen in Durban, South Africa                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Police in the South African city of Durban are searching for a baby girl who was in a vehicle when it was stolen in an apparent car-jacking on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The mother was with her one-month-old baby and an eight-year old when she was approached by two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals then hijacked her car and drove off with the baby still inside, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The car, a white Toyota Yaris, has since been found, but the baby is still missing. <\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Thulani Zwane said that a search operation, involving officers and a dog unit, would continue until the girl was found.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our priority is to find this baby,&quot; Mr Zwane said.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Marshall Security\/Facebook<figcaption>Image caption                                      The white Toyota Yaris was later discovered abandoned                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police recovered the abandoned vehicle in Montclair, southern Durban, at about 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A South African Marshall Security spokesman, Kyle van Reenen, said that the infant&#039;s baby seat had been removed from the car, local media report.<\/p>\n<p>The news has rocked South Africa, with residents taking to the social media site Twitter to urge anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of interest in the incident, the hashtag #HelpFindDurbanBaby was trending throughout the afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>The South African police service has asked those with information to call their local crime number.<\/p>\n<p>Car hijackings are common in South Africa, with many people installing tracking devices in their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, incidents in the country increased by 14.3% on the previous year, meaning that on average 40 cars were hijacked per day, according to the latest statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-39237753 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright South African Police ServiceImage caption The one-month-old baby girl who was abducted when a car was stolen in Durban, South Africa Police in the South African city of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}