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Four people have died.
- Four other people were shot and killed in Mitchells Plain.
- Western Cape police said all four were shot at point-blank range, while a fifth person survived.
- There were also two separate shootings on Friday, which left a teenager dead and several more injured.
Four other people were shot and killed in Mitchells Plain on Saturday afternoon, during a weekend of terror in the Cape Town suburb.
Police spokesman Colonel Andrè Traut said the four were killed at point-blank range in a shooting from a vehicle on Maureen Street, Ciudad Perdida.
The victims were 30, 36, 37 and 64 years old.
A 37-year-old man was also shot and seriously injured.
Police issued an urgent information appeal to help arrest the shooters.
The information can be transmitted, confidentially, to Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
In the area Friday, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a shooting, in which three other children, 14, 16 and 18, were injured on the corners of Cadillac and Riley streets in Beacon Valley.
Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz said occupants of a white vehicle were reported to have opened fire on the children. The motivation for the attack has yet to be established.
Police had activated a special 72-hour task force to investigate the shooting.
“I welcome SAPS’s swift response to this tragic shooting. Children should not grow up in fear of being shot or violent,” he said in a statement.
The Department of Social Development has made psychosocial support available to provide assistance to those in need.
In a separate matter, police were called to another scene, at the corner of Cadillac and Austin streets in Beacon Valley, where an 18-year-old man was found dead with gunshot wounds to the neck.
According to SAPS, the murder and attempted murder cases were opened for investigation.
