A twenty five year old male is in a critical condition after being assaulted and stabbed with a steak knife at Jika Joe Township in Pietermaritzburg this afternoon.
ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the man lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The patient who was still responsive had been stabbed with the steak knife and it was embedded into his head. Advanced life support intervention had to be performed on the patient due to the severity of the incident. The patient was stabilised further, making sure the knife did not move from his head and was transported to a nearby hospital in a critical condition where trauma staff where waiting.
It is believed that an argument had broken out and the man was then stabbed and assaulted. It is unclear what caused the argument but the necessary authorities were on the scene and would investigate the incident further.
Derrick Banks
ER24
