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Source: New Zealand Herald
3 Sep, 2018 10:58am
A 25-year-old man has died after a mob of "angry males" swarmed paramedics and stopped them from treating him in Sydney's south.
According to the Australian Paramedics Association (APA), emergency services were called to Iris Avenue in Riverwood yesterday morning where the male was suspected of having suffered a drug overdose.
However, family members of the dying man became "irate" and tried to intervene, the APA alleges.
Up to 80 "angry males" quickly gathered at the unit and allegedly threatened the health workers and charged at a female paramedic, injuring her shoulder. The four others were "shaken up" by the attack.
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