South Africa: 27 dead in two shootings in Johannesburg and Cape Town
Police have launched manhunts and deployed special units after two separate shootings over the same weekend.
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Two shootings that took place over the same weekend left a total of 27 people dead in South Africa, according to RFI: 17 people were killed in Johannesburg and another 10 in Cape Town.
South African police said they had launched search operations to track down the perpetrators of the two shootings and had deployed special units to lead the investigations, according to RFI's report.
A country confronting endemic armed violence
RFI notes that South Africa records around 60 homicides a day, a level of armed violence that regularly fuels concern among authorities and the public over public safety in the country.
The report does not specify the exact circumstances that led to the two shootings, nor the suspected motives of the perpetrators, nor the number of any people injured in these incidents.
According to the information available, South African authorities have not given a timeline for the progress of the investigations or any possible arrests linked to the two shootings.
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