NELSPRUIT – Police in Ogies are searching for four men who mercilessly shot dead six people at the Steyn informal settlement near Ogies, Mpumalanga police said on Saturday.

“It is alleged that on Thursday, 12 October 2017, at approximately 7pm, four men arrived at the informal settlement mainly occupied by Lesotho nationals,” Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said.

“They enquired about someone who killed one of their (the suspects’) relative who was staying at Rietspruit, near Kriel,” he said.

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“The people who said they did not know who killed the mentioned man were then shot at and as a result six people gruesomely lost their precious lives. Four died at the scene and two at the hospital. All in all, three females and three males of which two of them were a couple.”

Investigation had revealed that five of the victims were Lesotho nationals and one a South African citizen. The suspects were reportedly driving a white Toyota Quantum minibus, speaking “deep sesotho language”, and were all armed, Hlathi said.

Anyone who might have information about the incident was requested to contact Detective Warrant Officer John Mothupi at 082-604-1340.
 

African News Agency