More violence on the Cape Flats

Violence continues to plague Cape Flats residents after three suspected gangsters were buried in Hanover Park this week in the aftermath of a recent spate of revenge shootings. Two suspected gangsters are still in hospital after the shooting in Phillans Walk. On Friday, the Phillippi police opened a case of murder after an 18-year-old man was fatally wounded at the Hanover Park terminus. The police’s Randall Stoffels says a five-year-old girl was wounded by a stray bullet. She is being treated in hospital and the suspect is still at large.

In another fatal shooting incident in Cape Town, a 55-year-old man was shot dead on Friday morning when three unknown men opened fire on him at a service station in Brackenfell. The attackers fled in a car after firing five shots at the victim. The police’s Elliot Sinyangana said that detectives identified the victim as a man from Brackenfell who signed in at the local police station every morning as part of his bail conditions. Sinyangana says the motive for the attack is still unknown.

And in Philippi-East on the Cape Flats, two armed men robbed two security guards of an undisclosed amount of money and two firearms on Friday. The guards were picking up money at an ATM when they were held up by the robbers. The suspects fled in a bakkie towards the Brown’s Farm informal settlement and are still at large.