News24 reports that Mpumalanga police have launched a manhunt for armed robbers who assaulted, pepper sprayed and robbed staff and patients at the Empumelelweni Clinic in Vosman on Sunday morning.

SA Police Service (SAPS) provincial commissioner, Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Manamela, "strongly" condemned the incident, which she described as shocking. According to provincial police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli, two armed suspects entered the clinic at around 02:25. They allegedly held security guards, as well as staff and patients at gunpoint. The gunmen then robbed the victims of their personal items, including cellphones. Mdhluli reported: “During the said robbery, the victims were reportedly assaulted, meanwhile others were sprayed with pepper spray, whilst some security guards sustained injuries. The suspects are said to have then fled the scene with the robbed items.” Last month, burglars broke into three Johannesburg clinics within a week and made off with computers containing patient information.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard compiled by Botho Molosankwe at News24

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