Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two houses in close proximity to each other in a rural town in South Africa, according to the police.

A search was under way for the suspects, national police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said in a statement on Saturday.

The shooting took place on Friday night in the town of Lusikisiki in Eastern Cape province in southeastern South Africa.

Video released by police showed the shooting occurred at two houses in the same neighbourhood, which is a collection of rural homesteads on the outskirts of the town.

Twelve women and a man were killed in one house and three women and a man were killed in the other house, police said. Four women, one man and a two-month-old baby survived.

Local media reported that the people were attending a family gathering at the time of the shooting, but the motives for the killing remains unknown.

Source: Al Jazeera 

BDST: 1013 HRS, SEPT 29, 2024
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