CCTV footage from the nursery school showed six-year-old Hongrui’s grandfather showing up, speaking to a teacher and then leaving the premises holding the other boy’s hand. (Picture: Asia Wire) A pensioner who could not recognise his grandson picked up the wrong boy from school and took him to hospital to have a flu jab in his backside.

The bizarre mix-up happened in the city of Guiyang in China’s south-western Guizhou Province and caused a kidnapping scare as the boy’s parents thought he had been abducted.

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CCTV footage from the nursery school showed six-year-old Hongrui’s grandfather showing up, speaking to a teacher and then leaving the premises holding the other boy’s hand.



When the other boy’s parents arrived to fetch their son, he was nowhere to be found.


The mum of Hongyu, the boy accidentally taken, said: ‘We arrived 5:13pm and asked the teachers where our kid was. They said his grandad had picked him up.

The grandad himself said: ‘They called me and told me to fetch the child. I don’t live here.’ (Picture: Asia Wire) The mum of Hongyu, the boy accidentally taken, said: ‘We arrived 5:13pm and asked the teachers where our kid was. They said his grandad had picked him up.’ (Picture: Asia Wire) ‘I said: “What grandad? His grandfather is in Qianxi [county]!”

‘I called my in-laws and asked whether they had come to Guiyang. They said no.’

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Panic quickly ensued and a missing-person report was filed to the police and notices were shared on social media.

One of these notices, which included a CCTV still of the grandad, was spotted by Hongrui’s aunt, who thought: ‘Wait, that’s my dad!’

She called her nephew’s parents and the case was finally resolved some four hours later.

Hongrui’s parents had asked his grandad to pick him up from nursery school, but the pensioner appeared to forget what exactly his grandson looked like, so he grabbed Hongyu’s hand and left.

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Bizarrely, the clueless boy seemed to go along with it too.

The nursery school’s principal Wu Shenglan said: ‘Our teacher asked the child who the man was, and he said: “This is my grandad.”

‘It was certainly an oversight over on her part, and she shouldn’t have trusted the child just like that.’

Hongrui’s dad, who was too busy to fetch his son himself, tried to explain his father’s blunder: ‘He’d just arrived from the countryside the day before. He probably thought the boys looked alike!’ (Picture: Asia Wire) The pensioner, who was also told his grandson needed a flu shot, then took the poor boy to a hospital where he received a jab in the backside.

Fortunately, he was returned in one piece, while Hongrui ended up waiting at the nursery school for hours for his grandad who seemingly never showed up.

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Hongyu’s relieved dad said: ‘He never goes anywhere when we tell him to!’ adding: ‘Honestly, we have no idea how this all happened.’



When asked why he went with the man, Hongyu said: ‘I don’t know.’

Hongrui’s dad, who was too busy to fetch his son himself, tried to explain his father’s blunder: ‘He’d just arrived from the countryside the day before. He probably thought the boys looked alike!’

The grandad himself said: ‘They called me and told me to fetch the child. I don’t live here.’

Asked why he could not recognise his own grandson, he said: ‘I just got here yesterday!’

The nursery school has promised to review the incident and make improvements.