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Last year, disturbing stories emerged of parents who claim that Dr. Peter Beale, a top Joburg surgeon, was allegedly responsible for the deaths of eight children.

The accusations came to light when the Sayed family claimed that Beale’s actions, along with those of his anaesthetist, Dr Abdulhay Munshi, caused the agonising and traumatic death of their 10-year-old son, Zayyaan, following what should have been a simple routine procedure.

Munshi and Beale were charged with culpable homicide. Both doctors were granted bail and their last court appearance was on August 31, 2020.

Then, on Wednesday, September 16, Munshi was gunned down by a motorist in Orange Grove, Joburg, at about 3:50PM.

TimesLIVE spoke to a witness, Dayton Ramiah, who says that he was helping his dad offload his van when he heard a loud bang, which he assumed was a car backfiring.

He says a car rear-ended Munshi’s vehicle, and then he heard four quick gunshots.

He ran to the gate and saw a dark grey C-Class Mercedes-Benz race off.

“The windows were tinted. You couldn’t see who was inside. It was speeding. There were no number plates on it.”

“There was an elderly white woman who had stopped. She saw everything.”

Ramiah’s father, Daryn Ramiah, relays what the woman, who claims to have been behind Munshi’s car when the shooting took place, said about what she witnessed.

“What she told us was crazy. She said the accident happened. She said after the shooting the doctor got out and walked to the back of his car.

“The driver, who was apparently a white guy, got out of the Mercedes, walked up to the BWM driver and shot him.”

Daryn Ramiah said Munshi was shot multiple times.

“A bullet him in the right eye. He was shot in the chest, twice in the back and once under the arm.”

“Between the crash, the shooting and the killer driving off was about three minutes. It was so quick.”

Another witness who was watching televisions said that she heard multiple gunshots.

“I hunt and know gunshots going off. It was with purpose. It was aggressive. You can hear when someone is shooting with purpose or panic and there was nothing panicky about that shooter.”

A construction worker near to where the shooting took place said, “there were people screaming. You could see the man dying. It was horrible”.

Dr Dharmesh Daya, president of The Radiological Society of SA, says:

“We are outraged by the brutal murder of Dr Munshi. Doctors travel at all times of day and night to see patients. There are increasing numbers of reports of doctors and paramedics being attacked and killed. Doctors are already at risk from the diseases they treat, as we have seen in the Covid-19 pandemic. It is even more tragic when they are violently killed while following their calling and serving the community.”

Members of the medical community have extended their condolences to Munshi’s family.

[source:timeslive]