Students, parents not taking chances even though driver in international school kidnap scare had no ill intent
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...l-kidnap-scare
In the first case last Thursday (Jan 11), a United World College (UWC) South-east Asia Dover campus middle-school student, who would have been between 11- and 14-years-old, was waiting for the bus in Dover Road when she was approached by a man driving a van who asked the student to get into the vehicle.
She walked away, and later filed a police report with her parents.
It is understood that the driver claimed he merely offered a lift to the student because it was raining then.
The second incident involved a female student from Tanglin Trust School in Portsdown Road. She was walking to school on Tuesday (Jan 16) at 12.30pm from one-north MRT station when she was approached by two people in a white van - said to be driven by a woman - who asked her to get in.
The girl ignored them and continued to walk to school. The two occupants of the van then got out of their vehicle and continued to try to persuade her to get in, but she moved away quickly and arrived at school safely.