BEIJING: A Chinese man reunites with his kidnapped son after a 24-year; search that saw him travel half a million kilometres across China on a motorbike; chasing tipoffs on the boy’s whereabouts.
Guo Gangtang’s son was just two years and five months old when he gets abduct in 1997 from in front of the family home in eastern Shandong province, where he was playing unattended. Traffickers snatched the boy and sold him to a family in central China.
After years of searching, police told Guo on Sunday that a DNA test had confirmes that a 26-year-old teacher; living in central Henan province was really Guo’s long-lost son.
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Also, Guo is seen sobbing into his palms; while his wife hugs their son Guo Zhen; during a reunion event in a photo release on Tuesday; by the public security ministry.
Guo says through tears in a video that everything will be happy from now onwards since his child has been found.
According to local media reports, Xinzhen was kidnapped while playing alone outside his home on 21 September 1997 by a woman only identified by the police with her surname Tang. She and her boyfriend then immediately sold the two-year-old to a family in nearby Henan province.