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News24 reports that a City of Cape Town security officer was seriously injured in an attack at the Coastal Park Landfill site in Vrygrond on Sunday.
Law enforcement spokesperson Wayne Dyason said that between 22:00 and 22:30 a group of people attacked security officers at the site in Muizenberg. The group chased a female security officer who sought shelter under a vehicle. "The suspects discharged a petrol bomb onto the front of the vehicle. [The woman] was then trapped under the back section of the vehicle while the front burned. A City law enforcement officer attached to the Rapid Response Unit arrived on [the] scene and, with assistance from his colleagues and other security officers, managed to free and rescue the female officer from under the vehicle after they lifted it," Dyason said. The security officer sustained serious injuries to the lower parts of her body and was taken to hospital where she was stabilised. No one has been arrested in connection with the incident. The City has since alleged that the attackers retaliated against the City after it prevented the "further unlawful occupation of the proclaimed False Bay Nature Reserve" earlier that day. "The violence perpetrated by the criminals in retaliation to the City acting to uphold the rule of law and to protect the False Bay Nature Reserve area behind the City's Coastal Park Landfill site in Vrygrond, should be condemned by all communities and influencers in our society," said Mayco Member for Human Settlements Malusi Booi.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24
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