The Mercury reports that two people were gunned down in Durban on Friday in separate incidents in KwaMashu and on the M4 Southern Freeway near Wentworth.
Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said that early on Friday morning, paramedics received a call about a shooting at a business premises next to Bridge City Shopping Centre in KwaMashu. Reports indicated that a security officer guarding a funeral parlour had been gunned down by an unknown number of assailants. “On arrival at the scene the adult male guard was found lying face down in a pool of blood, surrounded by at least 12 high calibre bullet casings,” Herbst said. The man was declared deceased on the scene. Meanwhile in a separate incident on Friday night, Emer-G-Med Paramedics responded to the scene of a shooting incident on the M4 Southern Freeway on ramp from Quality Street. Reports from the scene indicated that a male driver, who was approximately 40 years of age, was found lying next to his vehicle, which was peppered with bullet holes. He was declared dead on arrival of the paramedics.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Karen Singh at The Mercury
- See too, Security guard shot dead near Durban mall, at EWN
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