{"id":18543,"date":"2013-03-03T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/girl-held-hostage-shares-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2013-03-03T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T06:27:09","slug":"girl-held-hostage-shares-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/girl-held-hostage-shares-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl held hostage shares ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ac9da_861075977.jpg\" alt=\"IOL news dec 31 gun\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">.<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">.<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/news\/crime-courts\/robber-shot-as-he-held-girl-hostage-1.1478682\">Robber shot as he held girl hostage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Durban &#8211; Maseeha Baig was smiling on Thursday despite having been wounded in a shoot-out between her father and an intruder the night before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cI was scared, but I tried to be brave,\u201d the shy nine-year-old said of her ordeal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The incident happened at her grandparents\u2019 house in Sherwood at 7.40pm. Other family members were there at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Maseeha\u2019s uncle, Raees, was outside with a friend when three men overpowered them and stormed the house. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The men confronted Maseeha while she was in the main bedroom. Her grandmother, Najma, saw what was happening and screamed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Maseeha\u2019s father, Ridwaan Baig, came running. \u201cOne of the men had a gun to my daughter\u2019s head,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Baig said he was armed but was terrified for Maseeha\u2019s safety. \u201cI yelled at him to let her go,\u201d he said. \u201cBut he opened fire on me, so I pulled the gun from its holster and fired back.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The assailant was wounded in the chest, and he fell as he stumbled out the front door. He died soon afterwards. The other two intruders fled in a white BMW. They took only a cellphone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">When the robber opened fire on Baig, a bullet had ricocheted and hit Maseeha in the upper leg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cShe did not feel it at the time,\u201d said her grandfather, former Sydenham councillor Yacoob Baig. A little while later, she said she thought she had been shot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Maseeha was taken to Shifa Private Hospital, in Sydenham. She was discharged on Thursday and is to recover in a wheelchair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Baig and his wife, Ayesha, were unable to sleep on Wednesday night. \u201cWe had to give the kids something to calm them down,\u201d he said. The couple have five children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Police were investigating. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The Mercury <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . Related Stories Robber shot as he held girl hostage \u00a0 Durban &#8211; Maseeha Baig was smiling on Thursday despite having been wounded in a shoot-out between her father and an intruder the night before. \u201cI was scared, but I tried to be brave,\u201d the shy nine-year-old said of her ordeal. 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