EMS crews: Robberies and assaults on Human Rights Day

POLICE are investigating two separate incidents where EMS crew were robbed and in one incident, two staffers and a patient were assaulted on Human Rights Day.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

EMS officials have since pleaded for the attacks on their staff to come to an end. At the first scene in Extension 4, Mfuleni, four suspects attacked the crew and wounded the patient.

Police spokesperson, Joseph Swart- booi, said the suspects dragged the driver of the ambulance out of the vehicle before turning on her colleague and the patient, robbing them of their belongings. The trio were rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

“The circumstances surrounding this incident are still under investigation,” Swartbooi said.