Paramedics Attacked in a Transylvanian Village over Scare Stories About Organ Trafficking
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The villagers have heard horror stories that organ traffickers are driving ambulances around Romanian towns to kidnap children.
One paramedic was seriously injured.
The angry villagers tried to block the ambulance, and according to the paramedic, they only escaped lynching because the driver managed to turn the car around and escape.
An ambulance was attacked with stones, sticks and axes by angry villagers in the Transylvanian town of Recea-Cristur. The crew of the ambulance was also injured in the beatings, and the driver suffered a serious eye injury. Based on a rumor about the ambulance arriving in the village to treat a patient, they believed it was a "black ambulance" used by organ traffickers to steal children from the villages. The unfounded rumors have been circulati…
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