'Police are looking at the possibility that some of the killings may be related to rival gangs involved in collecting trash at the Rietfontein landfill.'
Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela has appointed a multidisciplinary task team to work around the clock to find the shooters.Police spokesperson Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said t
Late Friday afternoon, the bodies of two other men aged 27 and 30 were found in Tsakane, where two other people were also injured during an attack by a group of about eight people who were shooting at people randomly.It is suspected that the group, armed with handguns, were travelling in two vehicles.
Eight other people were also attacked while they were sitting in a shack at an informal settlement in KwaThema. Three people aged between 26 and 41 died and five others were taken to hospital.The provincial commissioner expressed confidence that the killers"will be brought to book very soon, as police are following positive leads on the killers".
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