Police are investigating the report of an overnight abduction in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ont.
According to the Port Hope Police Service, officers and Northumberland OPP and Port Hope firefighters around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday responded to reports of a vehicle fire on Hamilton Road, just north of Highway 401.
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Firefighters extinguished the fire on the 2003 Toyota Matrix. However, upon leaving the scene, firefighters located a lone man on the shoulder of nearby Telephone Road.
The man advised firefighters he had been abducted earlier in the evening and was forced into a vehicle. He said he managed to flee from the vehicle in the area of Hamilton Road.
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