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Armed robbers continue to target South Africa medics

Two more paramedics were robbed at gunpoint as they were treating a patient

By Thando Kubheka
Eyewitness News

JOHANNESBURG — Johannesburg Emergency Services has confirmed two of its paramedics have been robbed at gunpoint in Hursthill.

It’s understood the pair were attending to a patient in the early hours of the morning when they were confronted by five unknown men.

Emergency services say the paramedics were forced to flee to the Brixton police station with the patient.

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