Police: Kidnap bid on Ipoh schoolgirl is fake

IPOH: The purported attempt to kidnap a pupil outside SK Pengkalan in Taman Pinji Mewah here is false, police say.

Perak police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said investigations found that the nine-year-old girl had concocted a story about the incident and told it to her mother.