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Ambulance Driver"s Murder sparks outrage

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Original Post Date: 2002-07-31  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 7/31/2002 1:21:02 PM
Ambulance Driver"s Murder sparks outrage

They dedicate their lives to saving others, and now health officials have become targets for gangsters.

Grieving staff from the Orange Farm Clinic in Johannesburg gathered on Tuesday to pray at the spot where their colleague was gunned down by hijackers.

As wreaths were laid to remember Frans Tumiso, Emily Sithole paid tribute to her colleague.

‘The people who killed Frans are not strangers’
Tumiso, 47, an ambulance driver, was shot four times during the hijacking in the early hours of Monday.

His ambulance was stolen.

He and two colleagues were returning to Orange Farm Clinic, south of Johannesburg, after they had transported a seriously ill patient to a nearby clinic, when they were ambushed by four armed men.

One of the colleagues recalled: “The four came out of their car and started shooting at Frans. He tried to return fire. While the shooting was taking place we managed to sneak out of the ambulance. Frans was shot four times.”

A nurse at the clinic, Caroline Molotsi, said this was the fifth such incident in the Orange Farm area, but the first to involve a fatality.

“The people who killed Frans are not strangers but are well known to the Orange Farm community,” said Molotsi.

Gauteng regional deputy director for health services Rhoda Sineli said an intensive probe of Tumiso’s murder would be ordered.

“We expect our health workers to serve us, so we need to guarantee their safety,” she explained.

Sineli added that serving the Orange Farm community had become life-threatening to health officials.

“We have received numerous requests from Orange Farm health officials wanting to be deployed to other peaceful regions,” Sineli explained.

She said Tumiso’s gun was his own and had not been issued by the department.

Vaal Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Piet van Deventer confirmed that the ambulance was recovered on Tuesday.

“Nobody has been arrested, but investigations are continuing,” he added.

Van Deventer could not say how many ambulances have been hijacked, but said government vehicles were stolen all over the country.

Source: www.IOL.co.za
Date: July 30 2002 at 09:18PM
Author: David Matsena
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&ar…br>