A 61-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in a Pietermaritzburg Hospital after he was attacked on his farm in Thornville late last night.
It is alleged that the man had been asleep when two men broke into his home. He awoke to the two men moving around his room and thereafter a scuffle ensued, with one of his attackers stabbing him several times.
The fracas continued until the elderly man managed to depress a panic button at his bedside. His assailants fled the house on foot.
Netcare911 Paramedics arrived to find the man is a serious condition. He sustained facial trauma form a blunt object and three stab wounds to his arms and back. He was treated at the scene before he was transported to hospital by ambulance.