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The Star reports that City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) paramedics were robbed at gunpoint while busy assisting a patient in the early hours of Thursday.
According to EMS spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi, the ambulance crew based at Dobsonville Fire Station was attending to a patient when they were accosted by two men who held them at gunpoint and robbed them of their belongings. The robbers fled the scene with the ambulance keys. Mulaudzi advised that the ambulance crew were not harmed and that they, together with the patient, were picked up by a motorist and taken to the nearest safe place. In a separate incident, two paramedics were held up and robbed of their valuables by three suspects while loading a patient into their ambulance on Wednesday night in Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal. About a week ago, two paramedics were shot and robbed in Amatikwe, north of Durban, while responding to a fake emergency call. On 2 January, hijackers attacked two paramedics at a filling station in Lenasia. During the attack the hijackers managed to get away in the paramedics vehicle, but no one sustained injuries. On 31 December in Alexandra, fire fighters monitoring New Year’s festivities were attacked by hijackers.
- Read the full original of Lerato Selepe’s report in the above regard at The Star
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