Canada's naked car crash takes new twist as three face kidnapping charges

• Car full of naked people deliberately rammed truck near Edmonton, police say
• Two adults and a baby had allegedly been abducted 20 minutes earlier

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
Thursday 9 November 2017 21.12 GMT

Three people are due to appear in a Canadian court on charges of kidnapping in a bizarre case that burst into public view after a car full of naked people deliberately rammed another vehicle on a road in Alberta.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to the scene of a collision earlier this week in an industrial park in Nisku, south of Edmonton. They arrived to find a white BMW that had crashed into a truck.

In the BMW sat five people, all of them naked, despite the centimetres of snow on the ground and temperatures that hovered around 10C below zero.

Police described the crash as a “purposeful collision” and said drugs or alcohol may have been a factor. The five people were arrested at the scene.

The RCMP later said the strange saga had actually begun about 20 minutes before the collision when two adults and a six-week-old baby were taken from a residence and forced into a vehicle.

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