TMG Digital reports that paramedics were threatened with a knife‚ stripped of their personal belongings and one of them stabbed with a broken bottle by robbers as they loaded a patient into an ambulance in Cape Town.  

The ambulance was vandalised.  There have been several incidents of paramedics being attacked in and around the city this year.  A provincial emergency services crew was robbed at knifepoint in Khayelitsha in May.  In January a paramedic was robbed of medical equipment in Mitchells Plain.

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