Delft police are looking for assistance from the public after three taxi drivers were shot and killed and three other people were wounded at the Delft South Taxi Rank on Thursday evening.
The four suspects were apparently armed with R5 rifles and 9mm firearms.
According to witnesses at the long distance taxi rank, four unknown black men had approached the rank and randomly opened fire.
Panicked passengers sitting in some of the taxis who were about to depart got down on the floor and under the seats as shots rang out.
One witness said she held onto her two small children and prayed as people screamed and panicked.
“They fired straight into the taxi we were leaving in. I could see through the holes how people were running and screaming, but the men with their big guns just kept coming,” mom Thandeka Gwala says.
“The shooting stopped and we heard a car speed off, people were shot and some were dead. I got out and took a taxi with my crying children back to my house. We were going to visit my mother-in-law in the Eastern Cape, but I will not go soon.”
Police said three men, aged 37 to 40, died on the scene, while three others, aged between 23 and 37, were critically injured and rushed to hospital.
The motive for the attack is unknown and no arrests have been made yet, said police spokesperson, FC van Wyk.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the Delft Police on 021 954 9000 or alternatively Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
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