South Africa: Mom Played Dead After Gunmen Killed Kids in Cape Town Slaying

19 September 2019

Bianca Alexander played dead after she was shot when three gunmen barged into a home in Clarke Estate in the middle of the night and opened fire. When her assailants ran out of ammunition, she and her injured friend fled their Elsies River dwelling in which their children had just been killed.

"She told me she had begged for their lives, but they shot anyway," her brother, Jayson Alexander, told News24 after visiting her at Tygerberg Hospital.

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