Recent shooting reports from South Africa currently rates the country as one with world’s highest murder rates.
Police in South African are on the hunt for murder suspects after nine people were fatally shot in separate shootings in two provinces on Saturday night.
Yesterday’s shooting incident come on the heels of an uptick in violent murder cases in South Africa, making the country record highest murder rates.
Yesterday, on Saturday, July 16, four people were shot and two more injured at the Thembelihle informal settlement in the Gauteng province.
According to preliminary investigation, group of men were playing dice at a street corner, at around 19:30 pm (1730 GMT) on Saturday. They were attacked by unknown assailants who shot at them, the authorities said.
Four people were certified dead on the scene on Saturday while two people were taken to the nearest medical care center after sustaining gunshot wounds.
The authorities also said, in another separate incident still at Thembelihle in the south of Johannesburg, a 36 year old man who appeared to have been robbed of his belongings, including a cellphone and bicycle was found shot dead.
So far the police have not confirmed the motive for the shootings.
In the Western Cape Province, police have launched an investigation following triple murder last night in Khayelitsha township. Police stated this seemed to be unrelated incident.
Officials stated;
On Friday, eight suspects linked to random separate shooting and robbery incidents of six people on Thursday night at the Alexandra township in Johannesburg were arrested.
Approximately 20,000 people are murdered in South Africa annually.
