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Shootout in Cape black township kills five

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Khayelitsha

Five people were shot and killed in Lingelethu West in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Sunday.

Lt-Col Andrè Traut said a man shot at patrons in a tavern on Saturday night, after an argument.

“Three victims died on the scene and [another] two succumbed today [Sunday] in hospital,” Traut said.

Two other wounded victims were being treated in hospital.

The man fled the scene and was still at large.

“The investigation will be prioritised so that we can apprehend the suspect as soon as possible,” he said. – Sapa

Two people injured in Johannesburg shootout

Johannesburg's central business district where the shooting took place
Johannesburg’s central business district where the shooting took place

Two people were injured when a group fleeing from security guards opened fire in the Johannesburg central business district on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

“An Audi Q7 was chasing a blue BMW M1 when the occupants of the BMW started shooting at the Audi Q7 which was driven by security guards at the corner of Anderson and Sauer streets,” said spokesman Warrant Officer Xoli Mbhele on Thursday.

“The security guards then returned fire and shot the BMW’s tyre,” he said.

Mbhele said the five got out of their car and fled on foot while they were shooting at the security guards, hitting two passengers in a stationary Quantum taxi at the corner of Broad and Loveday Streets.

“The group then hijacked a white Nissan Tiida and sped off from the scene,” Mbhele said.

The car was later recovered at Turffontein.

“The injured, a man and a woman, were treated at the scene but the woman was taken to hospital with a wound in the neck,” Mbhele said.

The security guards gave chase to the group’s car when it failed to stop as it was driving towards on-coming traffic, Mbhele said.

He said the police were searching for the criminals. – Sapa

18 dead in Lonmin shootout

An attempt by the police on Thursday to disperse striking workers at Marikana’s troubled Lonmin mine ended in a shootout between the two groups.

A Sapa reporter at the scene said he counted 18 bodies lying next to the nearby Wonderkop squatter camp. The shooting lasted about three minutes.

Police had tried to intercept a section of the strikers gathered on top of a hill.

The strikers were wielding pangas and chanting war songs. Police fired teargas and then used a water cannon to disperse the strikers, who retaliated by firing live ammunition at the police.

The area around the hill, which the strikers had turned into their base for the past few days, was cordoned off with barbed wire.

The strikers scattered towards the squatter camp and the nearby veld.

Police spokesman Captain Dennis Adriao told journalists at the scene police had been “tactical” in their approach and that the situation was tense. – Sapa