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NATIONAL NEWS: Paramedics held at gunpoint and robbed while working

Three paramedics of the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) were held at gunpoint and robbed while attending to a patient in Yeoville.

Paramedics were busy treating a patient in an ambulance when they were approached by an armed man in the early hours of Friday morning.

“While the crew was busy treating the patient in the patient compartment of the ambulance, one armed man came from nowhere and pointed a firearm at them and demanded all their belongings, including their wallets and cellphones,” said EMS spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi.

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