A 59-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was kid­napped, as­sault­ed and left un­con­scious along a road­way in Siparia ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the vic­tim re­port­ed that around 5:20 am on May 2, he was dri­ving his black Nis­san Note along Sin­cline Road, San­ta Flo­ra, when a dark-coloured ve­hi­cle trav­el­ling in the op­po­site di­rec­tion veered in­to his lane. The im­pact caused the right wing mir­rors of both ve­hi­cles to col­lide.

He told of­fi­cers he stopped his ve­hi­cle and was about to ex­it when two men ap­proached him and be­gan ar­gu­ing. The sus­pects then forced him in­to the back seat of his ve­hi­cle. One man en­tered the dri­ver’s seat and drove off, while the oth­er re­mained in the back with him.