A female paramedic has been sexually and physically assaulted and her ambulance smashed with a brick after she and her male colleague were attacked at a Mitchells Plain garage.
The duo were at the BP garage along Eisleben Road, in Lentegeur, known as the Clocktower, when the drama unfolded just after 11.30pm on Saturday.
A colleague, who cannot be named, says the female medic had been inside the Pick 'n Pay store at the garage buying a cooldrink when she was approached by two unknown men.
She says one of the men started harassing the medic while she was standing in the queue and began rubbing himself up against her body.
When she protested, the suspect started hitting her in her face.
The male paramedic, who had been sitting inside the ambulance at the time of the incident, noticed what was going on and immediately tried to help his colleague.
But when he stepped out of the vehicle, one of the suspects threatened to fetch a firearm and started hitting the ambulance with a brick.
The rear window of the ambulance was shattered and the brick was found on the bed inside the vehicle.
The source explains: “They were standing in the queue when this drug addict and another man approached her and began harassing her.
SMASHED: An ambulance window shattered in the attack on EMS staff in Lentegeur
“The colleague tried to intervene and the one said he would fetch a gun.”
Robert Daniels, Provincial spokesperson for Emergency Medical and Forensic Pathology Services, confirms: “On Saturday, November 3 at 11.30pm, a female Emergency Medical Service practitioner was threatened, sexually harassed and physically assaulted by two adult males at a BP service centre kiosk in Lentegeur, while her partner was waiting for her in their response vehicle.
“She managed to get away from her attackers to the safety of the ambulance, but the attackers proceeded to stone the ambulance from behind as the crew rushed from the scene.
“The crew has been offered counselling and a case was opened with Lentegeur police.”
The female staff member was left with bruises to her face.
The colleague says on their way to the police station, the traumatised duo collided with another vehicle along Eisleben Road.
Police spokesman, Captain FC van Wyk, says the suspects are still at large.