SowetanLive reports that two paramedics were attacked and beaten by a mob while their colleagues were forced to tamper with a murder scene by transporting a dead man to hospital.
The incident happened in Ramokonopi Section in Katlehong in Ekurhuleni on Saturday where the ambulance crew responded to a stabbing call from a tavern. According to Ekurhuleni Emergency Services (EMS) spokesperson William Ntladi, two paramedics who responded to the call were assaulted while attending to an injured man. Ntladi said the mob, believed to be friends of the injured man, stabbed to death Mbongeni Seyise, 39, in a revenge attack. They then apparently ordered another ambulance crew to contaminate Seyise's murder scene, insisting that the paramedics transport his body to Thelle Mogoerane regional hospital in Vosloorus. "Our crew was beaten and assaulted by the mob when a second man was being attacked allegedly in revenge for the injured man," Ntladi related. Apparently, the fight started earlier in a tavern and escalated.
- Read the full original of the above report by Promise Marupeng at SowetanLive
- Read too Patient 'finished off' in full view of paramedics in Johannesburg, at TimesLIVE
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