The Citizen reported on Saturday that police were searching for three gunmen after two people were murdered and six others wounded in an open veld in Florida, west of Johannesburg, on Thursday.
Allegedly, three armed men wearing balaclavas waited in the veld near an old mine. Police spokesperson Brigadier Kay Makhubele said the eight victims, believed to be illegal miners or zama zamas, were making their way from a taxi to the mine when the assailants approached them. Makhubele said the eight men from Lesotho were robbed of money and their cellphones before being shot. Two died, while six were taken to hospital. The three suspects went on the run and police confirmed they had mobilised maximum resources to trace the men.
- Read the original of a short report in the above regard on page 8 of Saturday Citizen of 20 June 2020
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