Sharjah 24 – AFP: Two shooting incidents in a township close to Johannesburg and in eastern South Africa, left 19 dead, police said on Sunday as they tried to verify if the murders were linked.
In Soweto, 15 people were killed as they enjoyed a night out, police said, when assailants drew up in a minibus taxi and began randomly firing high-calibre guns at people.
Police in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal, reported four people were killed and eight wounded when two men fired discriminately at people.
For the police it was too early to say if the assaults were in some way connected, but they observed their similarity.
Eleven people were taken to hospital, and three later succumbed to their wounds.
The dead, who included two women, were aged between 19 and 35, provincial police chief Elias Mawela told AFP.
"According to witnesses they shot randomly," said Mawela, adding forensic police were still collecting evidence.
There were no details regarding the assailants.
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