A man who
fled to South Africa in the hope of a better life has been brutally
murdered by a mob who are believed to have attacked him purely because
he came from Mozambique.
Shocking
images capture the moment the armed gang surround Emmanuel Sithole and
repeatedly stab him with knives and bludgeon him with a wrench in
Alexandra township near Johannesburg.
In
a chilling twist the victim was left bleeding to death in a gutter
because a medical centre just 300 feet away was closed for the day
because the doctor who worked there was also a foreigner and feared
becoming a victim of a xenophobic attack himself.
The brutal
attack was captured on camera on Saturday morning by a journalist from
South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper who was in the neighbourhood to
interview a number of foreign-born shopkeepers who'd had their
businesses looted overnight.
But
as children played in the streets and onlookers stopped to inspect the
damage from the previous evening, the Mozambique-born passer-by was
brutally attacked without warning by a man carrying a metal wrench.
As Mr
Sithole sat injured in the gutter another thug saw what was going on and
joined in the attack using a knife to stab him repeatedly while the
first attacked continued to beat him with the wrench.
A
third attacker - wearing a grey hoodie - then reportedly entered the
fray, running over and kicking Mr Sithole in the head as he pulled out a
large butcher's knife. Before he had the chance to use the knife a
witness intervened and the three men fled the scene.
It
was too late for Mr Sithole, however, who managed to stumble along the
road pleading for help for his fatal injuries before collapsing fatally
injured in a rubbish-strewn gutter.
Witnesses,
including the journalist, took Mr Sithole in the back of a car to a
nearby medical centre but found it was closed because the foreign-born
duty doctor had failed to turn up for his shift because he feared being
attacked by the xenophobic hordes rampaging through the township.
During
the subsequent journey to a hospital, Mr Sithole's condition
deteriorated as he screamed and winced in agony before he eventually
fell unconscious. Porters
initially refused to take the man into the hospital as he appeared to
be dead but, after spotting him choking he was rushed inside the
building where doctors tried in vain to save his life.
The
cause of death was later established as a direct stab wound to the
heart and his identity established from a mobile phone found in his
pocket.
More horrifying pictures of the gruesome attack below...
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