W. Australia family caught in middle of South Africa gunfight
ABC News, Australia
Posted Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:10pm AEDT
A West Australian man has told how his family survived a frightening attack by armed men in South Africa on Tuesday night.
School principal Peter Stone, his wife and their three children were staying with family in a home in the eastern province of Kwazulu Natal when three gunmen burst into the house and took four people hostage.
Mr Stone says the hostages were held with guns against their heads and knives against their throats. He says the hostages were saved by neighbours, who shot one of the gunmen and wounded the two others during a shootout.
[Cape Times] One man was killed and two others were wounded when holidaymakers foiled an armed robbery at a holiday house at Pennington, on the South Coast, on Monday.
The balaclava-clad men, apparently carrying a handgun and knives, entered the house and held up 14 people, including four women and seven children. Neighbouring holidaymakers intervened and one robber was killed and his accomplices were wounded in a subsequent scuffle.
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