Cops have hands full over kidnapping prank


MALACCA: Panic reverberated through Malacca after a fake kidnapping of two children went viral on social media.

Even the Malacca police contingent was not spared, responding to dozens of calls from concerned parents when the posting with pictures and voice recordings mimicking policemen in patrol cars asking the public to help trace a white Proton Saga was disseminated throughout the nation.

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