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JOHANNESBURG: Nine people were killed after gunmen opened fire on people at an informal settlement outside the mining city of Rustenburg in South Africa’s North West province, police reported on Sunday.
Police spokesman Brig. Sabata Mokgwabone said the incident took place around 9.15 pm local time on Saturday night.
Mokgwabone said that according to information available, a group of mainly Xhosa-speaking individuals were sitting in a yard drinking liquor when an unconfirmed number of Sesotho-speaking individuals opened fire on them.
“As a result, eight people died instantly, while the ninth one was certified dead on arrival at the hospital. Moreover, eight people were reported to be wounded,” Anadolu Agency reported he said in a statement.
He added that North West Provincial Commissioner Lt-Gen. Sello Kwena has sent a dedicated team to investigate the killings, the motive of which is yet to be determined.
The dead included five males and four females.
Mass shootings have become more frequent in South Africa, where around 70 people were murdered on average every day in April-June 2022, according to the latest national crime statistics.
In July last year, 14 people were killed in a mass shooting at a bar in the township of Soweto near Johannesburg. Police said the attackers used high-calibre firearms and sprayed bullets randomly.
Several mass shootings were reported in the country last year.
南非發生大規模槍擊事件 警方表示已造成9人死亡
約翰內斯堡：警方週日表示，槍手在南非西北省礦業城市勒斯滕堡外的一個非正式定居點開槍，造成九人死亡。
警方發言人準將。 Sabata Mokgwabone 表示，這起事件發生在當地時間週六晚上 9 點 15 分左右。
莫格瓦博恩說，根據現有訊息，一群主要講科薩語的人坐在院子裡喝酒，突然有數量不明的講塞索托語的人向他們開槍。
「結果，八人當場死亡，第九人在抵達醫院後被證實死亡。 此外，據報道有八人受傷，」阿納多盧通訊社報道說，他在一份聲明中說。
他補充說，西北省專員中將。 塞洛奎納已派出專門小組調查這起殺戮事件，但動機尚未確定。
死者包括五名男性和四名女性。
南非的大規模槍擊事件變得更加頻繁，根據最新的國家犯罪統計數據，2022年4月至6月，南非平均每天約有70人被謀殺。
去年7月，約翰尼斯堡附近索韋托鎮一家酒吧發生大規模槍擊事件，造成14人死亡。
警方稱，攻擊者使用大口徑槍支，並隨機發射子彈。
據報道，去年該國發生了幾起大規模槍擊事件。 -
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