Police are investigating 250 separate dockets of multiple murders where 578 people were killed in groups across the country in just three months.
This was revealed on Wednesday by police minister Bheki Cele when he released quarterly crime statistics for the period July 1 to September 30.
“The KwaZulu-Natal province recorded the highest number of multiple murders, followed by Gauteng and the Western Cape. Equally, the police in the three provinces continue to make arrests and bring the gunmen and their handlers to book. Police operational responses nationwide should continue to remove guns that are in the wrong hands,” he said.
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