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Six treated at Tshwane fire station after a shooting incident
Six patients were treated for gunshot wounds and transported to hospital by emergency care practitioners of the City of Tshwane Emergency Services Department, following a shooting incident at Bosman Taxi Rank on Friday, 11 December 2020. Charles Mabaso, deputy chief: public information and liaison officer at the City of Tshwane Emergency Services said, “Gunshots could be heard from around 06h30 and soon after that a man with gunshot wounds came to ask for emergency care at the Bosman Emergency Services Station in Pretoria. The man, who was critically injured, was soon followed by a female and a male victim who had suffered minor to moderate injuries. A fire truck was dispatched by the Emergency Call Centre to investigate the shooting at the taxi rank. Upon arrival, fire fighters found three more victims with gunshot wounds. Fire fighters quickly removed the injured patients on stretchers from the hostile taxi rank environment and took them to the fire station. The two males with moderate to serious injuries and one female with minor to moderate injuries were given emergency medical treatment by paramedics at the fire station and transported to hospital. The cause of the shooting is not yet known and the scene was left in the hands of the South African Police Services.
Source: Charles Mabaso, deputy chief: public information and liaison officer, City of Tshwane Emergency Services |
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