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Since his daughter returned home, Aslam Dekhta has barely taken his eyes off her. He checks up on Abirah, 8, as soon as she is out of his sight, careful that she does not notice him and realise how shaken he still is.
On Monday evening South Africa celebrated the happy reunion of eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta, who was kidnapped on November 4 when the driver of the lift club that takes her to school was held at gunpoint, and her family.
The father of eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta, who was abducted in front of her primary school in Rylands, says he won’t return his daughter to scholar transport after the ordeal.
Two men jumped out of the vehicle with firearms and held the driver at gunpoint. They took the driver's cellphone and snatched Abirah by the neck, forcing her into the bakkie.
South African police continue to search for an eight year-old Indian-origin girl who was kidnapped by two armed men in Gatesville, Cape Town, two weeks ago, local media reports said.Abirah Dekhta, a student of Rylands Primary School, was ...