23 Apr 2017, Gauteng: On duty Gauteng EMS staff shot at. On Saturday the 22nd April 2017 at about 18h30, Paramedics were returning to Cullinan EMS Base when they came across what looked like a dead body lying on the side of the road.
The EMS crew stopped to assist and whilst they were busy trying to attend to the patient, two vehicles appeared from nowhere and randomly shot at the direction of the Ambulance.
The ambulance was hit by bullets, and Paramedics had to escape on foot, abandoning the patient and the ambulance.