A 57-year-old man from Honingnestkrans north of Pretoria was shot and wounded in a farm attack on Thursday morning.

The man was shot in hip, dragged around and left for dead in the attack near the Apies river area.

After emergency services arrived on the scene he was stabilised and taken to the Montana hospital where he was due to undergo an operation.

The man had opened the gate for his wife to go to work around 04.15 on Thursday when the couple heard a noise at the pump.

The wife then turned the car in the direction of the pump to shed some light on the pump.

The suspects then started firing shots at her husband.

“The suspects shot at the man, wounding him in the leg. The second shot grazed him on his head and the third shot missed him,” Wayne Alberts, a member of the local CPF told Rekord.

“The suspects dragged the wounded man around and left him for dead,” Jean du Plessis, spokesperson for GAC Risk Solutions who were also called to the scene.

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The suspects then approached the wife and took her into the house where they demanded money before taking a TV set and breaking the safe out of the wall. They also took the wife’s handbag and two cellphones.

“The wife was not harmed in the incident,” Du Plessis said.

Police and emergency services were called to the scene where the wounded man was stabilised before being taken to hospital.

Du Plessis confirmed the suspects followed the same modus operandi as the attack earlier this week, in Varkfontein.

On Monday, GAC Risk Solutions reacted to three incidents in the Apies river where a group of two to three suspects targeted four properties with apparent intend to break in.

Two residents were tied up during a robbery but the suspects left the scene empty-handed after they were scared off by a security reaction vehicle.

Du Plessis and Alberts said the community has been terrorised by the group of suspects for the last year.

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