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Police and a specially trained psychologist are to interview the brother and sister at the centre of an attempted kidnapping in Invercargill on Sunday.
A man tried to grab the four-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy as they played at the rugby league grounds on the corner of Ness and Ettrick Streets, about 3pm.
Police and a psychologist specially trained in interviewing children would speak to the pair today to gain extra insight into the attempted abduction, Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Bowman of Invercargill CIB told the Southland Times.
Police planned to interview the boy today, while his sister would be spoken to by a psychologist, because of her age.
During the ordeal, the man attempted to pull the girl by her arm into a white van, but the boy held her other arm.
The man then grabbed the boy, but the pair had managed to escape when he went to open the van door.
Police were today still looking for the man described as a Polynesian, about 1.7 metres tall, in his 50s, clean shaven with straight hair.
He was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt and was missing a tooth.
The van had tinted windows and mag wheels.
- NZPA
