<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13e1fbbb-6a16-4363-804b-7392d794bc75/67723EC5-60EA-46CD-A568-3EE0A7F9AF37/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html" href="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.news24.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P class="topStoryHeadingNew">Gun-toting man threatens paramedics <SPAN class="secondarystorycopy"> 10/01/2007 15:12  - (SA)   </SPAN> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P>Durban - Paramedics were prevented from attending to a battered Durban woman by her gun-toting boyfriend, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Wednesday. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P> Spokesperson Leon Mbangwa said the two paramedics who responded to an emergency call late on Tuesday night had a gun pointed at them, preventing them from treating the woman. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P> It is believed the boyfriend had assaulted her. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P> Mbangwa said that only once police had arrived on the scene were the paramedics able to carry out their work. The boyfriend fled the scene when the police came. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P> "The department of health wishes to call on the public to be vigilant and protect the hard working paramedics," he said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2053242,00.html"><P> The two paramedics were operating out of the Fossa Satellite base, which has recently been opened to improve the health department's service in the Newlands West area of Durban. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/67723EC5-60EA-46CD-A568-3EE0A7F9AF37/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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