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- Retired South African medical journalist, ex-Sunday Times of Johannesburg.
Dutch tourist stabbed in Port Elizabeth
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PORT ELIZABETH. May 20 2010 – Fifty-one-year-old Dutch tourist Maria Blits was stabbed in the arm by a black man while she was walking on Outeniqua Road from a shopping trip at the Hume Rail Shopping Centre to Humewood in Port Elizabeth. Mrs Blits was visiting her daughter Melke – an exchange student in PE.
The Herald Online said the hooded man ‘appeared out of nowhere,’’ quoting SAPS captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg. He stabbed her in the arm, pushed her to the ground, grabbed her bag full of groceries and demanded her handbag. She handed it to him and he then ran off, capt. Janse van Rensburg said.
Mrs Blits then stumbled down a hill onto Beach Road, where a passing motorist saw the woman, bleeding from an arm, waving for help and stopped to assist.
The motorist took her to the Greenacres Hospital where she underwent X-rays and medical treatment. She required surgery in the upper arm as the stabbing from the knife had damaged muscles in her upper arm.
Mrs Blits was scheduled to fly back to the Netherlands on Friday. “We are trying to alert the embassy of the incident, so that we can help her get all her passport papers in order so she does not miss her flight,” Janse van Rensburg said.
“We have also sent numerous police officers to where the attack happened in an attempt to find the stolen goods.”
Mrs Blits’s cellphone, handbag, money and credit cards were stolen. She did not want to comment or have her picture taken. No arrests have been made. http://www.theherald.co.za/article.aspx?id=565161
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