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‘Wonderful' and ‘loved by all' - 65-year-old woman reported kidnapped in Gqeberha
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Lindsay Knowlden, 65, was reported as kidnapped on Saturday.
She and her husband were apparently accosted outside a market in Markman.
Police said an investigation was under way.
A desperate search for a 65-year-old Gqeberha woman, described as 'wonderful' and 'loved by all', was underway on Saturday, after she was reported kidnapped.
Atlas Security was at the scene at the Nelson Mandela Bay Fresh Produce Market in Markman, north of the city, early on Saturday morning.
According to information provided to the private security company, Lindsay Knowlden and her husband were accosted by armed men in the underground parking lot after arriving for work.
He was assaulted with a firearm and suffered a laceration to his eye, while she was bundled into a silver Polo and then driven away.
The couple's son, Gregory Knowlden, was overcome with emotion on Saturday afternoon.
'She's a wonderful, friendly, genuinely caring person. Loved by all,' he said of his mother.
He explained that his father was an agent at the market, and that his mother worked for him.
'They were both there to go to work,' he said.
Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge said an investigation was 'actively underway'.
He said no ransom demand had been received as of yet and appealed to the public 'for any information related to this incident'.
It comes on the back of a spate of kidnappings for ransom in recent months, with the Eastern Cape an apparent hotspot.
Last week, an EFF councillor, Kholeka Mpupha, appeared in the Dimbaza Magistrate's Court in connection with the abduction of a 42-year-old hardware outlet owner.
