No fewer than six people have been confirmed dead, and four wounded in a mass shooting in South Africa on Tuesday.
According to the Police, three men entered the yard of a home in the township of Kwanobuhle near the town of Kariega in the Eastern Cape province and opened fire.
The suspects have not been arrested and a search was underway, police added.
“It is alleged that … three unknown males entered the yard and opened fire at people who were in the property or nearby to the house,” said police spokesperson Col. Priscilla Naidu. “Two females were shot at the gate. One female succumbed to her injuries while the other sustained gunshot wounds.”
Police said the motive for the shooting is unclear.
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and at least 2,629 people were killed with a firearm in the first three months of this year, according to official crime statistics. That’s a rate of 30 people a day.
