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PIGG’S PEAK – A man was robbed of his E4 700 and stabbed multiple times. Dropped
He said the robbers stole a mattress and blankets, which the medical staff used to place patients whom they wanted to keep for observation. He
The man, estimated to be in his 50s, was robbed and stabbed with an unidentified object, though suspected to be a knife, in the neck and some parts of the body, including his hand, on Sunday evening after he alighted from a kombi. According to sources close to the matter, the man who did not want to be mentioned, for safety reasons, was supposed to be dropped off at a junction to Mhlatane around Pigg’s Peak.
However, somehow the kombi driver supposedly did not hear him calling for the kombi to stop so that he could alight at his intended destination and instead dropped him further at the next stop, the Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications Corporation’s (EPTC) post office.
“A few minutes after he dropped off, he was robbed,” said a source. The man told this publication that as he was walking along a path, when a man went past him and suddenly turned like he was trying to ask something.
Thereafter, another man came from behind and hit him. This caused him to fall. However, he said when he tried to wrestle with his assailants, he was stabbed in the neck and both hands. He was rushed to the Pigg’s Peak Government Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed the matter. However, Vilakati said their records revealed that the matter occurred around Mangwaneni area, while the man insisted that he was robbed and assaulted near the Mhlatane junction.