Ten members from the same family, including seven women and three men, were killed by gunmen Friday in the city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, police said.
“According to initial police reports, unknown gunmen stormed a Pietermaritzburg homestead and ambushed the family,” the South African Ministry of Police said in a statement Friday. The mayor of the area told local media that they needed to bolster capacity of local police stations. National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told CNN some arrests have been made. “Two suspects arrested, one dead, another fled the scene.
There has been no motive yet suggested for Friday’s shooting. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, according to police statistics. The rates have been increasing sharply after the temporary lull during the most severe period of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. At least 15 people died after a shooting at a bar in the township of Soweto last July. Four other people were killed in a separate shooting incident in a bar in Pietermaritzburg on the same evening.
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