Cape Town Metro cop delivers baby amid protest

A Cape Town metro police officer delivered a baby in the heat of protest action on Tuesday.

Violence broke out in Dunoon over the weekend after city authorities stopped a land invasion on the opposite side of the N7. The protesters prevented ambulance of the pregnant woman in labour from entering Dunoon in order to get the patient to the hospital.

Metro cop by the name Abdullah Fisher delivered the baby while a colleague acted as translator for the 29-year-old Xhosa woman.

The mother and her baby were taken to Somerset Hospital in Cape Town. Mother are baby are reportedly fine.