Families reeling after hospital bloodbath

A knife-wielding former mental patient went on a 30-minute rampage of terror at Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria on Wednesday. He left three pensioners critically injured - one of them paralysed for life.

The terrifying bloodbath - in what are normally peaceful surroundings - shocked hospital staff, patients and visitors alike.

The man had been released from the hospital's psychiatric ward only last week.

His attack left Pretoria Gardens residents Willie Snyman, 69, his wife Martie, 68, and her sister Rita Meyer, 66, fighting for their lives.

They had come to visit Meyer's husband, Nico, who had just been diagnosed with cancer.

Hospital sources confirmed that the attacker, who comes from Atteridgeville, had been admitted to the psychiatric section two weeks ago after he had attacked a family of four in that township.

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