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(Photo: Gallo Images / Brenton Geach)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three people — the children aged 11 and 12 and the adult — died at the scene while the four-year-old girl died in hospital from her injuries. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Monday, the Western Cape police commissioner, Thembisile Patekile, went to the crime scene at Site C, Khayelitsha. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said investigators had begun questioning people of interest in the case and, hopefully, would make quick arrests.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Western Cape MEC for police oversight and community safety, Reagen Allen, said, “This incident is horrific and angers me deeply, especially with the number of young people senselessly murdered and wounded.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2225554\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG-20240610-WA0040.jpg\" alt=\"gunmen children khayelitsha\" width=\"720\" height=\"332\" /> <em>Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile, flanked by Major General Albert Maqhashalala (left) and district commissioner General Vincent Beaton, at the scene of the shooting on Saturday, 8 June. 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