Police in Port Elizabeth are searching for four suspects who hijacked a truck full of Grandpa pain killers in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The truck driver told police he was hijacked around 2 am while travelling on Old Grahamstown Road in the direction of Deal Party.
Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says a white bakkie with four occupants pulled up in front of the truck and forced it to stop at a traffic circle at the corner of Paterson Road and Old Grahamstown Road.
Three suspects approached the passenger side of the truck, smashed the window and forced the driver and his passenger to get out of the vehicle.
Captain Janse van Rensburg says the driver told police how they were tied up and forced into the back of the truck before the suspects drove off.
The hijackers then stopped the truck near the Cerebos salt pans where they offloaded six pallets of Grandpa pain killers.
Captain Janse van Rensburg says the suspects left the driver and his passenger in the abandoned truck.
They managed to untie themselves and opened a case with the police at 5.30 am.
