Police in Cape Town are on high alert as shooting incidents increase around the city. In the latest shooting incident reported, a man was shot several times while seated in his car in Milnerton on Tuesday, June 29.
According to SABC, ER 24 spokesperson, Russel Meiring indicated that paramedics who were close by heard gunshots and immediately rushed to the scene where they found the man’s vehicle riddled with bullet holes. Meiring says that the man was medically treated before he was taken to a nearby hospital.
This is just one of several shooting incidents to take place over the last few days after a 30-year-old man was shot and killed in Gugulethu on Sunday, June 27. Another person was also wounded in the incident.
This shooting happened after eight people were killed in the area while attending a traditional ceremony on Wednesday, June 23.
Police in the Western Cape have also launched a 72-Hour Activation plan on Saturday, June 26, after the bodies of three men were discovered in Samora Machel, each with one gunshot wound to the head.
Police Minister Bheki Cele, who recently visited the crime scene where the eight were people were killed, said that police can do much better when reacting to, and preventing mass shootings in the city, News24 reported.
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