A group of 19 Florida college students and a professor were robbed at gunpoint of their laptops, cellphones, cameras, passports, money and bags while on an outreach trip in South Africa.
Rima Abdelkader and Ali Gostanian
A group of 19 Florida college students and a professor and staff member from their university were robbed at gunpoint of their laptops, cellphones, cameras, passports, money and bags while on an outreach trip in South Africa, authorities said. The University of Florida group was on its way to visit a preschool class when the incident happened at a school near the city of Pretoria on Monday, university officials said.
An employee of the Viva Foundation School in Mamelodi East was assaulted by the group of at least five armed robbers, and a local resident was grazed by a bullet as the suspects"allegedly fired shots randomly when they were getting away" in a vehicle with no registration,University of Florida spokesperson Steve Orlando told NBC News said the university group helped to provide first aid to the two people who had come to their defense and were injured.
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