Bullets are the main cause of unnatural deaths of non-South Africans in Hillbrow and south Johannesburg.
A study by a department of forensic medicine and pathology student at the University of the Witwatersrand found an overwhelming number of unnatural deaths in foreigners was caused by gunshot wounds.
Tempest based her research on 2019 figures from the Johannesburg Forensic Pathology Services medico-legal mortuary in Hillbrow. In 2019 the Johannesburg FPS saw 3,550 deaths, with 693 of those, just more than 19%, being non-South Africans. For her research she did not include unidentified bodies or foetuses.
Other causes, from most to least, were sharp-force injury, motor accident, suicide, burns, poisoning, blunt-force injury, dead on arrival and assault.
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