After carefully surveying security footage and investigating further, Toronto police said no one was abducted from York University Wednesday.

Det.-Sgt. Al Coulter said after reports of a possible abduction on campus, three male students told campus security and police the incident was a prank. The person picked up in the van was a friend who appeared to be struggling as the other males laughed.

Investigators were called to the campus just before 5 p.m. following an eyewitness report a person had been forced into a van on the university’s Fine Arts Rd. at the south side of campus.

Coulter said police suspected the incident could have been a joke, but had to treat it as a serious situation until they proved otherwise.

He said the students are not being punished.

“They didn’t think there was anything wrong with what they were doing,” he said. “I think this is just an example of what can happen.”