South Africa: Police Deployments Reinforced in Khayelitsha As Organised Crime Detectives Probe Multiple Shooting Incidents That Left Nine Dead

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Cape Town — Following the murder of a man in the RR Section in Khayelitsha on Saturday morning in a shooting incident by yet-to-be arrested assailants, several other shooting incidents that left nine men dead and others seriously wounded, have been reported in the area. The body of the first victim was found with a firearm and a substantial amount of cash.

In a second incident that is believed to be a retaliation attack to the first murder, two Somali nationals were shot at at T110 on Saturday afternoon. One died on the scene and the other was seriously wounded and taken to a medical facility.

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