The three children aged 4, 3 and 2 were found by members of the public walking in Andersons Bay Rd about 5.30am. Image / Google
The three children aged 4, 3 and 2 were found by members of the public walking in Andersons Bay Rd about 5.30am. Image / Google
A trio of young children found wandering barefoot around South Dunedin early yesterday may have been involved in a similar incident five days earlier.
The three children, all aged under 5, were found alone in Andersons Bay Rd about 5.30am yesterday.
Aged 4, 3 and 2, the children were foundby members of the public who contacted police.
Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen, of Dunedin, said police took them back to a Melbourne St property where a man, understood to be their father, was home.
The incident has been referred to Oranga Tamariki.
A similar incident, involving three young children, happened on Friday morning but was not reported to police at the time.
A Dunedin man, who did not want to be named, said he was walking to the gym just before 6am on Friday when he saw three children - two boys and a girl - walking alone near the corner of Macandrew Rd and Fingall St.
He believed they were the same children found in Andersons Bay Rd yesterday.