A 68-year-old woman was left in a critically injured this afternoon when she was shot several times in her driveway on Thorn Avenue in Weltevreden Park, west of Johannesburg.
When ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene. They found the elderly woman lying in the garden. A paramedic from another service had already begun to assess the patient.
Upon assessment, paramedics found that the woman had sustained several gunshot wounds and was in a critical condition.
Paramedics immediately treated the woman and initiated advanced life support interventions.
Once stable, paramedics transported the woman under advanced life support supervision to a private hospital in Johannesburg, for urgent treatment.
It is understood that the woman had been approached by a number of armed men as she drove into her driveway.
Local authorities were on the scene to investigate further.
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