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Police in George are searching for a man who attacked an elderly woman with a garden fork, leaving her hospitalised.
Police spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Pojie, says the 66-year-old woman was attacked in her Hope Street home on Friday, allegedly by a man she hired to do her gardening.
He says the woman tried to fight off her attacker, suffering facial and body injuries as a result.
Pojie says the woman is in a serious condition in hospital.