{"id":11615,"date":"2017-03-12T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/south-african-baby-girl-abducted-in-durban-found-safe-and-well\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T07:42:10","slug":"south-african-baby-girl-abducted-in-durban-found-safe-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/south-african-baby-girl-abducted-in-durban-found-safe-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"South African baby girl abducted in Durban found safe and well"},"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                                      Siwaphiwe Mbambo was abducted when her mother&#039;s car was taken in Durban                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A one-month-old girl abducted in an apparent car-jacking in the South African city of Durban on Friday has been found safe and well.<\/p>\n<p>Police stopped a vehicle between Durban and Pietermaritzburg at about midnight on Saturday and found Siwaphiwe Mbambo inside. Three people were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects had allegedly car-jacked the mother&#039;s vehicle outside a shopping centre, driving off with the baby.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction sparked a huge media campaign and a search by 100 officers.<\/p>\n<p>Police had recovered the mother&#039;s abandoned Toyota Yaris in Montclair, southern Durban, at about 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But a spokesman for South African Marshall Security, Kyle van Reenen, said that the infant&#039;s baby seat had been removed from the car.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Marshall Security\/Facebook<figcaption>Image caption                                      The white Toyota Yaris was discovered abandoned                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman Lt-Col Thulani Zwane confirmed that the baby had been found at about midnight on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Police were reportedly working on a lead when they stopped a vehicle at Mariannhill Toll Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Local media carried an image of the baby after her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports say the baby&#039;s mother is one of those people detained.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction shocked South Africa, with residents taking to Twitter to urge anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag #HelpFindDurbanBaby was trending throughout Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\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-39247359 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright South African Police ServiceImage caption Siwaphiwe Mbambo was abducted when her mother&#039;s car was taken in Durban A one-month-old girl abducted in an apparent car-jacking in the South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","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\/11615","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=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}