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Man stabs young boy
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Attacks fleeing seven year old to steal cellphone
} Tladi Moloi BETHLEHEM. – A seven-year-old boy from Bohlokong near Bethlehem who was nearly killed for a cellphone is recovering well at home after he was allegedly stabbed in the back by an attacker who wanted a cellphone. He was allegedly stabbed last Wednesday afternoon while trying to save his 12-yearold cousin’s cellphone. Apparently six children, four boys and two girls, were playing at the football field near the Mashudu church when an unknown man approached them. According to the 12-year-old boy, who came home carrying the younger one in his arms, the man came to them after they had refused to go to him. “He started by calling us saying we should come and fetch a bicycle. We refused. We could not go to him because we did not know him. He approached us and asked me what time it was. I kept quiet. We fled the scene and the man chased us,” he said. He said while they had been running, he had dropped his phone and the seven year old had picked it up. Unfortunately the attacker caught up with him and stabbed him. ”He caught him and stabbed him in the back immediately after he had picked up the phone. After that he left him bleeding and ran away with the phone,” the 12-yearold boy said. Mashabalala Motloung (31), the mother of the 12-year-old boy, said her child was still traumatized after the incident and added that he could not write Sotho and Natural Sciences for his final examination a day after the incident. “He came home carrying the young boy in his arms just like Hector Peterson was carried. He was, however, stopped by passers-by on the road who quickly called the ambulance,” she said. The injured boy was rushed to the Phekolong Hospital for treatment. Motloung said he was discharged the same day after the wound had been stitched up. She said they had gone to the Bethlehem Police Station to open a case and had later taken the older boy to the social workers for counselling. Sgt. Mmako Mophiring, the police spokesperson, confirmed the incident and added that a case of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm had been registered.
MASHABALALA MOTLOUNG points to the wounds that a 7yearold boy had sustained during an alleged attack.
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