Seventeen folks have been killed in a mass capturing in a distant South African city with a manhunt beneath approach to discover the perpetrators, police say.
Two homesteads within the city of Lusikisiki within the Japanese Cape had been focused, police mentioned, with 12 girls and one man killed in a single location, and three girls and one man at a second location.
An 18th sufferer is in a vital situation in hospital, the South Africa Police Service mentioned.
The police ministers and commissioner are as a consequence of give a nationwide briefing at 13:00 Saturday native time (12:00 BST).
South African media retailers are reporting the victims had been kin and neighbours in Nyathi village, Ngobozana in Lusikisiki.
They mentioned the group had been gathered on the homes to organize to attend a standard mourning ceremony once they had been attacked on Friday night time.
Information outlet Dispatch Reside quoted native Ingquza Hil mayor Nonkosi Pepping saying: “The gunmen got here and shot randomly killing everybody. Girls and youngsters had been additionally killed within the bloody capturing.
“This has left the group terrified.”
