News24 reports that a teacher, aged 28, was shot dead at Riverdene Secondary School in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Tuesday morning.

The KZN education department said the teacher was ambushed by three unknown assailants, who fled the scene immediately afterwards in their black getaway vehicle. According to paramedics, the teacher had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head and was transferred to hospital in a critical condition, but was later declared dead. A murder case was opened and police are still investigating.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alfonso Nqunjana at News24

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