AGE OF THE ASSASSIN
Gunmen ambush KZN family homestead and kill 10 people
Gunmen stormed a homestead in Pietermaritzburg and ambushed a family, killing 10 people, police said.
Police did not give a motive for the shooting in Imbali township.
Seven women and three men were killed, the Police Ministry said.
“It’s a crime scene. Terrible. Too many people were lost here,” Police Minister Bheki Cele told the SABC from Pietermaritzburg.
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Cele said police management needed to sit down and talk about whether the province needed more police resources.
A Reuters photojournalist at the scene of the shooting saw a mortuary van in the yard of the homestead, into which the bodies were being loaded using a stretcher as worried residents looked on.
South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of a population of 60 million.
Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in Gqeberha in January, following a spate of mass gun attacks in 2022. DM/Reuters
(Reporting by Rogan Ward. Writing by Alexander Winning. Editing by Mark Heinrich and Peter Graff)
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“Cele said police management needed to sit down and talk” – that says it all! Imagine if they went out and fought crime, corruption and murder.
They dont need more numbers, they need more passion, efficiency, commitment and less political interference, FROM ALL SIDES
Googling world websites – Reported on CNN now and every major world news will have the message, crime is out of control in South Africa, the Police are incapacitated and corrupt with so many mass killings occurring. Travel warnings will be the order of the day. Questions will be asked how can the Minister of Police stay in his position when the crime level has increased to this that mass murders, tavern killings, hijackings and assassinations are a daily occurrence.
“Too many people were lost here” said Cele
If it had two or three it would have been alright?