Five killed in gang-related shooting in Cape Town location

By Mark Ogagan

Five people have been killed on Wednesday, 17th April, 2024 in a mass shooting in Khayelitsha township on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.

Khayelitsha is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.

Spokesperson, Andrè Traut, says police responded to a shooting incident on Wednesday morning and found the bodies of one woman and four men. He confirmed that the bodies had gunshot wounds.

“The circumstances that led to the death of five people in Harare in Khayelitsha this morning are being probed by detectives from the Provincial Serious and Violent Crimes Unit. We have reason to believe that the death of the five people can be linked to an incident during the early hours of the morning where another male was shot and killed in the same vicinity.”

Police have yet to identify the victims or the motive for the shooting, which is suspected to be gang related.

According to campaign group Gun Free South Africa, on average 31 people are shot and killed every day in the country, which has 4.5 million licensed guns.