Port Elizabeth police have arrested two suspects, aged 20 and 21, at a local hospital soon after an alleged botched robbery of an e-hailing taxi driver on Saturday evening.
Spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu says it is alleged that the 47-year-old taxi driver went to an address in Alexander Road in Newton Park to pick up a client.
When he stopped at the house, two men got into the back seat.
Naidu says one of the men tried to strangle him with a piece of rope from the back, but the driver fought back and was wounded in the shoulder when the suspect fired a shot through the seat.
She says the driver returned fire, and the suspects ran away.
Police received information that two men arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds.
The two, one with a gunshot wound to the chest and the other with a wound in the arm were arrested.
The men from Shauderville are expected to appear in court soon on charges of attempted robbery and attempted murder.
