WATCH: Bo-Kaap residents describe horror knife attack on French UCT student | IOL News

Cape Town - A 20-year-old French woman studying at the University of Cape Town is recovering in hospital after she was stabbed and mugged in the historic Bo-Kaap, a popular tourist destination.

Chiappini street resident Maria Honig told the African News Agency that the attack was caught on a neighbour's CCTV camera. She said she called an ambulance while her neighbour applied pressure to the woman's stab wounds. "It was very quiet, there was nobody on the road, and she was walking towards Wale Street and was met face-to-face with a man, a small scrawny guy. He tried to ask her something.

Honig said the attacker was known to police and had been identified from camera footage, but no arrest had yet been made.

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