The Witness reports that a security guard was shot dead in a drive-by shooting on Electron Road in Durban on Tuesday morning.

Emer-G-Med advised that just after 6 am paramedics were called to the scene of a shooting incident in the Springfield Park area. When they arrived there, a man believed to be in his 50s was found with several gunshot wounds and was declared dead. “Reports from the scene allege the man to be a security officer who was shot by an unknown number of suspects in a drive-by shooting, as he was arriving at his place of work,” said Emer-G-Med. The police were in attendance and will be conducting the necessary investigation.

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