Hijackers rob, strip motorist

A bakkie driver was hijacked, robbed and stripped to his underwear in Pretoria on Monday, Gauteng police said.

Two men, one armed with a knife, confronted him at the corner of Proes Street and DF Malan Drive while he was stationary at a red traffic light, Warrant Officer Louis de Bruin said.

"A man suddenly appeared at his window and reached into the vehicle."

The driver grabbed his attacker's arm and pushed it out of the bakkie but during the scuffle a second man armed with a knife got into the vehicle and told him to drive and keep quiet. The first attacker got into the rear of the bakkie.

The pair stole R5800 in cash and the driver's clothes and fled on foot, leaving the bakkie which the man drove to Hercules police station in his underpants to report the attack.