Manitoba RCMP Say Woman and Child Safe After Alleged ‘Random Kidnapping’

Manitoba RCMP Say Woman and Child Safe After Alleged ‘Random Kidnapping’
The RCMP logo is seen outside the RCMP "E" Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., in a file photo. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
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Winnipeg — A Manitoba woman and her two-year-old daughter are safe after stopping to help a man who was allegedly pretending to need help on the side of a road but who then jumped into their vehicle and demanded to be driven to Winnipeg, RCMP said Saturday.

Cpl. Julie Courchaine told a news conference that police were first called to a hotel parking lot in Portage la Prairie, west of Winnipeg, on Friday afternoon for a report of a man in a van who was acting erratically and possibly taking drugs.