Timeslive reports that eleven people were killed and four others wounded in a night-time massacre on the R74 near Colenso in central KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Saturday.
A minibus taxi carrying passengers, all of whom were linked to the taxi industry, was waylaid by unknown gunmen who used automatic rifles to pepper the vehicle. Two men escaped the hail of gunfire uninjured. Police spokesman Brigadier Jay Naicker said that the taxi had been ferrying mourners from a funeral in Ematimotolo back to Gauteng when it was ambushed on the R74 road between Colenso and Weenen. “Unconfirmed information for now indicates that passengers are from a taxi association in Gauteng attending the funeral of one of their members‚” Naicker added. “Detectives from the Provincial Task Team in Durban were dispatched to the scene.”
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