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Robbers wanted cell, not car
22/01/2008 22:42 - (SA)
Aletta Otto, Beeld
Witbank - A man is in a critical condition in Cosmos Hospital after robbers shot him three times.
His family want his identity kept secret as they fear the robbers might return.
The man was wounded during one of three robberies in the Del Judor residential area on Monday.
The 53-year-old was shot about 19:45 in front of his house on Monday.
The man's son said: "My father was going to move one of the cars in the yard when three men approached him and demanded his cellphone.
"He said he didn't have a cellphone and offered them the car keys instead.
Is in intensive care
"The robbers started beating him and shot him three times.
"He was wounded in the head, neck and stomach and is in a serious condition in ICU at the moment," said the son.
The son said the whole family was in the house and stormed outside to find the robbers had fled.
They put the wounded man in a car and rushed him to hospital.
The son said: "The whole way there my father was saying, 'I've been shot, I'm going to pass out.' It was terrible."
According to the son, one of the bullets penetrated his father's lung, stomach, colon and kidney, and he lost about four litres of blood.
The man is being kept under sedation.
- Beeld
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