WHITECOURT, Alta. - RCMP say a group of people in Whitecourt, Alta., helped foil an attempted child abduction.
Police say a man approached a girl on Wednesday at a school playground in the community northwest of Edmonton.
Cpl. Brad Shardlow says the people intervened to help the girl, who wasn't harmed, and then called police.
Officers arrested a man in his car later that night without incident.
Shardlow says the 54-year-old man was being held in custody and is to be charged with attempted child abduction.
The suspect's name has not been released.