Organised Crime Detectives are investigating after seven people were shot dead and two left injured in yet another mass shooting on the Cape Flats on Monday.
The massacre happened in Gugulethu NY 78 at around 3pm and the victims including three women were attacked while sitting in the garage at a house.
According to some residents, there was a party at the house and the shooting happened when robbers came and took people’s valuables and then simply opened fire.
Hundreds of shocked people gathered at the scene as police started the investigation.
“This is our daily suffering,” said another resident.
“People get shot like flies here and nothing ever happens. I lost count of the bullets and I do not think it was a robbery but a straight hit.”
Other residents declined to comment as they suspect this was gang-related.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa said details were still sketchy at this stage: “Western Cape Organised Crime detectives with other crime scene experts are on the scene combing for clues where seven people were killed and two injured in a shooting in Gugulethu on Monday afternoon.
“Preliminary reports indicate that three women and four men between the ages of 30 and 40 were shot and killed by unknown gunmen at NY 78 in Gugulethu. Two other victims were injured and taken to a medical facility.”
Last month, six men were killed and four injured in a bloodbath in Solomon Tshuku Road, a stone’s throw away from the Site C taxi rank, where three people were shot dead in August.
On Heritage Day, a family of four was gunned down in Philippi, and a few days later, four men were shot dead at a house in Crossroads.