A horrific scene played out in a local surgery in Muldersdrift yesterday, 8 January when doctors and patients were held at gunpoint.
According to Constable Slindile Ntuli, spokesperson for the Muldersdrift Police, a 42-year-old woman from Drift Boulevard in Rietvlei, Muldersdrift was consulting with a patient when an unknown man entered the consultation room armed with a firearm.
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The man took the woman and her patient’s cellphones and money.
When the woman went to the reception area she found another two robbers who had already taken cellphones and an undisclosed amount of money from the patients and practice employees.
The woman was ordered to join the other victims in the toilet and the door was closed.
According to a Facebook post by Drift Reaction, one of their operations managers then entered the practice and while joking with the receptionist, one of the assailants held a gun to his head.
Another one took his firearm, cellphones, wallet and car keys and also ordered him into a toilet.
Once outside the robbers tried to rob another man but he reversed his car to get away. He allegedly then tried to chase the attackers but he was fired at.
The robbers fled in a Hyundai Atos Prime of which the licence plate is unknown.
Muldersdrift Police request anyone with information about the attack to please contact them on 011 952 4600 or Crime Stop on 0860 010 111.
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