Police did not give a motive for the shooting in Imbali township.
Seven women and three men were killed, the Police Ministry said.
“It’s a crime scene. Terrible. Too many people were lost here,” Police Minister Bheki Cele told the SABC from Pietermaritzburg.
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Cele said police management needed to sit down and talk about whether the province needed more police resources.
A Reuters photojournalist at the scene of the shooting saw a mortuary van in the yard of the homestead, into which the bodies were being loaded using a stretcher as worried residents looked on.
South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of a population of 60 million.
Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in Gqeberha in January, following a spate of mass gun attacks in 2022. DM/Reuters
(Reporting by Rogan Ward. Writing by Alexander Winning. Editing by Mark Heinrich and Peter Graff)
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Gunmen ambush KZN family homestead and kill 10 people
Gunmen stormed a homestead in Pietermaritzburg and ambushed a family, killing 10 people, police said.
