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The Citizen reports that two Best Care Emergency Medical Service ambulances were targeted in a petrol-bombing attack at the company’s premises in the Mountain View in the Pretoria area on Friday night.
Best Care has now offered a cash reward for any information leading to the arrest of the suspects. In video footage, two men can be seen walking gingerly towards Best Care’s premises. The men pause to peer over the fence, before one lights an incendiary device, and throws it over the wall. The other man threw what was thought to be another bomb, but it was confirmed to be a rock. They are then recorded making a run for it. However, a social media post shared by the company alludes to the attack having been more sinister than a random criminal incident. Spokesperson Xander Loubser said he met with the president of an unnamed biker’s club earlier in March. The man claimed he had been tasked to “sabotage Best Care and Ambu-Link EMS for a period of 12 months”, allegedly by another emergency service. Both companies are owned by the same proprietor, and operate from the same premises. Loubser asked the man to accompany him to the police station, but he refused. Loubser went to police regardless and made an official statement. Best Care is working with private investigators to find out who committed the crimes.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nica Richards at The Citizen
- Read too, Ambulances petrol-bombed in Pretoria, at TimesLIVE
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