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News24 reports that a truck assistant suffered burn wounds to his face and hands after a bread truck was petrol-bombed near Strand on Saturday.
Three unknown men approached the truck while it was waiting for the traffic lights to turn green, threw the petrol bomb and then ran away. A team of 12 firefighters responded in two fire engines and a rescue vehicle at 13:30 to the burning truck on the corners of the N2 and Onverwacht Street in Lwandle. They treated the man for his burn wounds and he was then transported to a nearby hospital. This was the second incident of a truck being petrol-bombed in the area in less than a week. On Wednesday, a truck driver broke his collarbone after fleeing from a truck that was petrol-bombed. A video shows two truck drivers sitting inside a stationary truck when the petrol bomb was thrown. Both men fled from the truck, which was at a red light on Broadlands Road in Somerset West. Western Cape trucks have increasingly become the targets of suspected criminal activity this year.
- Read the full original of the above report by Tammy Petersen and Ntwaagae Seleka at News24
- Read too, Driver flees as delivery truck is petrol bombed at traffic light in Cape Town, at News24
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