IN PICS | Mayfair residents shocked after kidnapping of schoolgirl

Residents were left in shock after a pupil from the EP Bauman Primary School in Mayfair, Johannesburg, was kidnapped on Wednesday.

Councillor Rickey Nair was on the scene within a few minutes following the incident after being informed by a neighbourhood watch member who was dropping his child at the school just before 8am.

“Two men pulled up in a Toyota Yaris, both armed with AK47s. The children were lining up outside the gate and they called the girl. They knew their target,” he said.

EP Baumann School, in Mayfair, Johannesburg, was a mess after the kidnapping of a grade 5 pupil. (Alaister Russell)

Members of private security direct pupils and traffic after the school was closed for the day. (Alaister Russell)

Schoolchildren hold hands as they walk outside EP Baumann School in Mayfair, Johannesburg, where a grade 5 pupil was kidnapped in November 2021. File photo. (Alaister Russell)

Concerned parents wait to collect their children from EP Bauman Primary in Mayfair. (Alaister Russell)

A member of a private security company directs traffic outside the school. (Alaister Russell)

Parents were left shocked after a pupil was kidnapped outside a school in Johannesburg on Wednesday. (Alaister Russell)

A private security guard monitors the scene at EP Bauman Primary in Mayfair. (Alaister Russell)

“The vehicle’s registration plates came back as fake.”

Nair said the girl’s mother panicked and went home. She received a phone call as soon as she arrived home telling her not to call the police or the media.

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