Good Samaritan tied to a tree and hijacked

A MAN who went out of his way to help people he met at a filling station was tied to a tree in the veld by the same people who also robbed him of his car.

This is one of the many incidents of hijacking that happened in some parts of the North West over the past few days.

Captain Aafje Botma said the 55-year-old was in a white Mazda Drifter on Thursday when he stopped at a filling station in Boitekong outside Rustenburg. Two men approached him and asked him to help them load firewood in the bushes in Bospoort. They said they would pay him.

“They all drove together in the victim’s vehicle. However, the driver was ultimately attacked and robbed of his pistol with eight rounds, two cellphones and money,” Botma said.