Police say a manhunt has been begined after the attack in the southeast of the country, were mass shootings have defercessitately become normal.
Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been ended in two hoemploys in seal proximity to each other in a country town in South Africa, according to the police.
A search was under way for the doubts, national police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe shelp in a statement on Saturday.
The shooting took place on Friday night in the town of Lusikisiki in Easerious Cape province in southeaserious South Africa.
Video freed by police showed the shooting occurred at two hoemploys in the same neighbourhood, which is a accumulateion of country homesteads on the outskirts of the town.
Twelve women and a man were ended in one hoemploy and three women and a man were ended in the other hoemploy, police shelp. Four women, one man and a two-month-elderly baby persistd.
Local media telled that the people were combineing a family accumulateing at the time of the shooting, but the motives for the ending remains unaccomprehendledged.
Manhunt under way
Police minister Senzo Mchunu telderly a media increateing on Saturday that a team of accomprehendledgeives and forensic experts had been deployed.
“We have brimming faith and confidence in the team that has been deployed to crack this case and find these criminals. Either they hand themselves over or we will convey them ourselves,” Mchunu shelp.
“We do not understand the motive” and “we do not understand if there is one or disjoinal doubts on the run”, national police chief Fannie Masemola shelp on SABC accessible television.
South Africa, a country of 62 million, sign uped 12,734 homicides in the first six months of this year, according to official crime statistics from the police. That is an mediocre of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the hugegest caemploy of death in those cases.
Mass shootings have also become increasingly normal in recent years, sometimes concentrateing people in their homes. Ten members of the same family, including seven women and a 13-year-elderly boy, were ended in a mass shooting at their home in the neighbouring KwaZulu-Natal province in April 2023.
Firearm laws are reasonably merciless in South Africa, but authorities have standardly pointed to the big number of illhorrible, unsign uped firearms in circulation as a convey inant problem.
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