Police are investigating a suspected attempted kidnapping, after an unknown man approached a primary school student in Hobart and encouraged him to get into his car.
A student was waiting for his mum to pick him up outside school when a stranger left his car and approached himThe boy went to the nearby early learning centre and phoned his mum, who was waiting just around the corner
He said the stranger was parked at the top of Churchill Avenue near the entrance to the Early Learning Centre "where many students are collected by parents and carers". "A person was sitting in a car about three or four cars along the street and noticed him standing there," Dr McEwan said.
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