The incident of a woman allegedly kidnapped by three men in a housing estate here that went viral on the Whatapps application yesterday is not true.

Sandakan District Police chief ACP Azhar Hamin said investigation revealed that the woman, in her 20s and believed to have been kidnapped, had followed her male colleagues as she was facing marital problems with her husband.

He said the police had interviewed all those concerned and the woman had admitted having marital problems with her husband.

The dissemination of the information that went viral was not true at all, he said here today.

-- BERNAMA