Cape Town — South African Police Services (SAPS) in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) have launched a frantic manhunt for an unspecified number of suspects who shot and killed three people in Inanda on Tuesday 16 April.
Police were alerted to a shooting that happened in Mpunzi Road, and upon arrival, found the bodies of a man, believed to be in his 4os, and a 24-year-old woman, who were declared dead at the scene, spokesperson, Colonel Robert Netshiunda, said in a statement.
Not far from the first crime scene, another body of a man believed to be around 50-years-old, was found dead inside his cottage room, while his neighbour was also shot but survived.
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“Information at police disposal at this stage suggests that unknown number of suspects shot the man and a woman and proceeded to a nearby house where they demanded keys for a minibus taxi from female occupants of the house. The females escaped unharmed and the suspects took the spare key for the mini bus taxi” Netshiunda said.
“The same suspects are believed to have continued to the cottages down the road where they shot the third victim and took original keys before driving off with the mini bus taxi. The minibus taxi was found abandoned in the Ntuzuma area.” he added.
In a separate incident, police said earlier on Monday, a man was shot and killed a few metres from where the man and the woman were killed.
“It is not yet clear if the incident is linked to the triple murder,” Netshiunda concluded.
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