Gunmen rob kidney patients undergoing dialysis

Robbers, on Thursday, stormed Kidney Care Centre in Glenwood, Durban, South Africa. Staff and patients at the hospital were held up at gunpoint.


The hospital's security guard told Durban Police that he was performing his duties on Thursday, March 21st at Umbilo area when five suspects alighted from a white Polo Vivo vehicle and Gold Toyota Yaris before heading straight to the hospital.

South African Daily News reports that at gunpoint, the suspects proceeded to the hospital. They robbed the nursing staff and the patients of their jewellery, eight cellphones and a laptop before fleeing the crime scene in their getaway vehicle.

Some of the patients were already receiving dialysis treatment when the men stormed in.

One of the robbers bit a nurses finger in an attempt to get her wedding ring removed.