A six-month-old Nigerian baby has been kidnapped by his parents' neighbours in South Africa.
The kidapping couple, believed to be Pakistanis, were said to have
abducted the son of Ifeanyi Jones, Revelation. They also locked his
six-year-old daughter in the house.
The couple was Jones’ tenants
and could be on the run with their three children, believed to be aged
between two and six. The couple was said to be in their early thirties
and of average build, while the wife claimed to be seven months
pregnant.
The abducted baby,
Revelation, is small for his age, having been born prematurely. He had
minor surgery recently and was on medication.
On Tuesday, just
after 5pm, a worried Jones opened the door to his house and found Kanda
[the nanny] lying in the hallway, covered in blood.
"When I saw her, at first I didn’t recognise her, her face was so swollen," Jones recalls.
Several
hours prior to this, he and his wife Khanyisile had been phoning the
nanny and the house, and no one had picked up the phone.
Kanda’s
husband, Daniel Kanda, said his wife had told him the attack had taken
place early in the morning. She was carrying the baby when the couple
attacked her
"They wrestled as the couple was trying to pull the
baby from her; until she fell to the ground, and the couple started
attacking her. They were attacking her with shoes. The man tied a rope
around her neck, that is when she collapsed," he said.
During the attack, Jones’ daughter said she and the tenants’ three children had hid under a chair in one of the rooms.
She
told her father that when the wife noticed her watching them, she
grabbed a pillow, pressed it against her face and pushed her into her
parents’ room, locking the door.
"She saw them carry out her brother and lock the door," said Jones.
Kanda was taken to hospital, where she is in a critical condition, with head injuries.
The tenants moved into the house on 5 December, 2012.
The husband, who only gave his name as Bobby, told Jones that the family had come from Durban.
They had been staying at a nearby hotel, but said it had become expensive.
At the end of the month, the couple said they didn’t have enough money to pay the rent and asked for a few days’ grace.
Last
week, the Joneses became suspicious when they noticed that something
had been added to their food that was cooking on the stove. They later
gave the food to the family, who they then discovered had dumped it in
the garden.
Jones suspects that they might have poisoned the food.
"I think now that their motive was to come and do harm," he said.
Police
investigators are now searching for the Pakistanis, who have demanded a
ransom a day after the two alleged kidnappers walked out of Jones’s Bez
Valley home with baby Revelation.
Police are investigating a case
of kidnapping and attempted murder, appealing to anyone who may know
the Pakistani couple’s whereabouts to come forward with information.
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