EWN reports that there has been yet another attack on Cape Town ambulance staff – this time in Mitchells Plain.  On Tuesday morning, two EMS personnel were on a call in Beacon Valley when they came under attack.  

The two paramedics had been called out to assist a patient in Beacon Valley, which is classified as a red zone area as attacks on emergency staff have occurred previously in the area.  When they stopped at the patient's home, a man ran towards the ambulance, pulled out a firearm and fired a shot through the driver’s window of the ambulance.  The paramedic was hit in the chest, but fortunately, he was wearing his own bulletproof vest.  No arrests have been made.  Deanna Bessick of EMS reported that this wasn’t the paramedic’s first brush with death:  “He was previously stabbed in the back with a knife in the same area where he and his colleagues render an essential service.”  Over a week ago, an ambulance crew was also held up at gun point in Khayelitsha.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kaylynn Palm at EWN

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