Police arrested two suspects following a shootout less than 2 kilometers from the massacre, police said.
Seven women and three men – all from the same family – were fatally shot outside the South African city of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Friday. The youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy.
Gunmen stormed the family's homestead in iMbali township early in the morning hours, police said, and hours later, they confronted four men participating in a"cleansing ceremony" conducted by a traditional healer less than two kilometers away from the crime scene, police said. A male suspect was killed and two male suspects were arrested following a shootout with police. One suspect is in the hospital under police guard with injuries sustained during the gunfire, police said. Three firearms were recovered from the scene and police are searching for one suspect who escaped during the shootout.
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