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A 53-year-old man from Roodepoort and his 19-year-old son have been arrested, following Monday's hostage drama and seven hour siege at a Port Elizabeth pharmacy.
Police spokesperson, captain Stanley Jarvis, says members of the police's tactical response team, national intervention unit and chief negotiator penetrated the pharmacy at around 7pm, using a stun grenade in the process.
The arrest of the two ended a day of high drama when the men held a pharmacist and her two assistants hostage in an apparent suicide bid.
Police said the men wanted the pharmacist to provide them with a lethal injection so that they could end their lives.
The men, who had been living in a tent on a nearby beach, were not injured during the siege.
They will appear in court later this week on several charges, including the pointing of a fire-arm.
Jarvis says police seized a toy pistol and an incendiary device during the arrests.
The pharmacist and her two assistants escaped unharmed several hours before the drama ended.
The Pharmacist and owner of the pharmacy in Seaview, Myra Booth, later described to the media how she managed to press the panic button and also push her two assistants out of the front door.
Booth said in a bid to placate the two men she got two syringes and went to the dispensary.
She picks up the story.
"The young guy followed me and held the gun to my head the whole time and I drew up just normal pain medication, because that is all I keep. I saw the security guy and told the man holding the gun to my head to take the syringes to his friend in front of the pharmacy, because I was worried I was going to drop them. He lowered the gun and I managed to dash out the door" Said Booth.
