SUMMERSTRAND - MAN STABBED TWICE DURING HOME INVASION

Two robbers armed with knives and a crowbar hacked through the bedroom door in a Summerstrand house yesterday in pursuit of the occupant. A 34-year-old man, who was alone in the house when the balaclava wearing pair struck shortly after 1am, was stabbed twice in the arm.

The badly shaken man, who did not want to be named, said yesterday he had only come to Port Elizabeth for the weekend to assess the security at his parents’ Brewer Street home because they had been burgled last month.

He said he was returning to Johannesburg “where it was safer”.

“I came up for the weekend to see what I could do in terms of beefing up security,” the man said.

“The irony is that I get attacked during a break-in while I am here.

“Fortunately, no one else was here at the time.”

Last month, the house was burgled while his parents were out.

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