An ER24 paramedic was robbed and stabbed at an ATM in Alexandra, Johannesburg this morning.
Kgaugelo Moroamohwebedu (25) was withdrawing money to catch his taxi to work when a BMW drove towards him and two men emerged from it.
According to Moroamohwebedu the attackers approached him saying: “Boy, give us your money”.
“I didn’t realise they were robbing me because they were smiling so I told them didn’t have money,” explained Moroamohwebedu.
He added that one of the robbers then hurried to the car to fetch what looked like a 9mm pistol and pointed it at Moroamohwebedu.
The second man then broke his juice bottle and attempted to stab the paramedic’s face with it. He sustained four stab wounds on the arm he used to shield his face.
They demanded that he hand over his money and cellphone to which he complied as he hastily emptied his pockets.
Unsatisfied with what they had, the robbers told him to hand over his utility vest and “drugs” but Moroamohwebedu refused.
“They assumed that because I am a paramedic I had medication such as morphine,” he explained.
After the men drove off his first instinct was to walk from Alexandra to his base office in Bryanston.
“When I got there the security guard ran into the office to tell the manager that I had been attacked,” said Moroamohwebedu.
He was then attended to by a doctor who stitched his wounds before a trauma counsellor saw him.
“This had never happened to me before so the trauma only set in as I was walking to base … I felt better after I spoke to the trauma counsellor.”
Moroamohwebedu was fortunate to not have been seriously injured in the incident.
The matter has been reported to the police.