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Former South African rugby star Lukas van Biljon was said to be 'broken and devastated' after his father died from gunshot wounds in a horrific farm attack in South Africa.
Tragic Andre van Biljon, 70, was blasted three times in the chest at midnight on Saturday and his son ex-Springbok hooker Lukas, 47, was stabbed repeatedly with a knife.
Six armed men had stormed the family farm in darkness at Oranjeville in Free State Province and tied up Lukas's children with cable ties then sneaked into Lukas's bedroom.
The 6ft 2 former hooker was woken with a 9mm pistol to his head and in a brief struggle was stabbed a number of times until he was told by the gang they had his sons.
They warned him his three boys would be shot dead if he tried to resist.
Tragic Andre van Biljon (pictured), 70, was blasted three times in the chest at midnight on Saturday. The bullets hit him in the chest and he was rushed in critical condition to the Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein but lost his fight for life at 1.30pm Tuesday
Former South African rugby star Lukas van Biljon, 47, (pictured in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006) was stabbed repeatedly with a knife. He was warned his three boys would be shot dead if he tried to resist as the gang ransacked the farm at Oranjeville, Free State Province
Meanwhile his brave dad Andre had made a run to reach a radio to alert his fellow farmers that they were under attack but was spotted and shot three times.
The bullets hit him in the chest and he was rushed in critical condition to the Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein but lost his fight for life at 1.30pm Tuesday.
A close farmer friend said: 'Lukas is broken and devastated and along with the van Biljon family had been with Andre at his bedside since he was operated on.
'But they were serious injuries and his body family gave out on him. They shot him from close range in cold blood. He was an old man and
