NATIONAL NEWS - Six people were gunned down in another mass shooting that occurred in Khayelitsha on Sunday evening.
Organised crime detectives are investigating an incident where six people were gunned down in a mass shooting in Khayelitsha, the 6th victim, unfortunately, succumbed to the injuries at a medical facility, according to Western Cape police spokesperson Novela Potelwa.
A murder docket is underway surrounding the circumstances of the shooting while the victims are yet to be identified.
Police reported the incident at the corner of Maphongwana and Idada Street in Site C where the bodies of the victims were discovered.
“On Sunday evening where they found the bodies of the five victims who had been shot. A sixth person who had been rushed to the hospital was certified dead on arrival,” said Potelwa.
Cape Town hospital shooting
Meanwhile, another shooting incident at New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town left two patients dead and a police officer seriously wounded but later passed on.
The police officer underwent emergency surgery on Saturday where he later died.
Initial reports said the 32-year-old constable had taken a suspect for medical assessment when a patient allegedly obtained the officer’s firearm and shot him in the head before turning the gun to two other patients instantly killing them.
It is believed by the provincial health department that the shooter was a patient who was about to be discharged from the hospital.
According to Western Cape Provincial Minister of Health Nomafrench Mbombo, nurses calmed the alleged shooter before sedating and recovering the firearm.
However, speaking to the media on Sunday Western Cape Health MEC explained the circumstances differently saying the officer went to check an altercation that ensued at another ward when he got shot.
The shooter is detained at the Cape Town central police station probing investigations.
