ANAPIX: Six People Shot in Cape Town CBD

By Henk Kruger Last updated Nov 23, 2020

South Africa – Cape Town – 23 November 2020. Traffic Police arresting a suspect in Strand street near the Castle of Good Hope. Six men and a woman in a wheelchair were injured in a shooting earlier this afternoon at the station deck taxi rank in what is believed to have been taxi related violence. Western Cape crime experts and detectives are combing three scenes in Marine Drive, Strand and Buitenkant Street for clues in Cape Town following a shooting incident. According to information unidentified suspects shot and wounded people at the station deck before fleeing in various directions while still discharging shots. Traffic officials apprehended one suspect aged 31, and confiscated a firearm. Cases of attempted murder are under investigation. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)

Cape Town, November 23 (ANA) Six men and a woman in a wheelchair were injured in a shooting earlier this afternoon at the station deck taxi rank in what is believed to have been taxi related violence. Western Cape crime experts and detectives are combing three scenes in Marine Drive, Strand and Buitenkant Street for clues in Cape Town following a shooting incident. According to information unidentified suspects shot and wounded people at the station deck before fleeing in various directions while still discharging shots. Traffic officials apprehended one suspect aged 31, and confiscated a firearm. Cases of attempted murder are under investigation.

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