Darling Downs Incident

Police are investigating an incident at Drayton today.

Around 9am police received information that a 26-year-old Toowoomba woman and a child had been abducted by a man armed with a gun at Drayton Road.

Initial information was that the man entered the woman’s car and then forced her to drive along the Gore Highway towards Kindon.  At the time there was a 3-year-old child in the car.

The woman was then instructed to stop the car at Kindon where the man got out before being driven off in a second vehicle that had been following the woman’s car from Drayton.

Police located the woman and the child at Kindon, neither received any physical injuries.  Both were taken to Goondiwindi Hospital for assessment and later released.

The second vehicle that had been following the woman’s car is described as a black sedan.

Investigations into the incident are continuing.

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