Three people have been killed and one more person was injured, during a shooting incident ,at the Joe Slovo taxi rank, in Cape Town, on Wednesday.
THREE men were shot dead at the Joe Slovo taxi rank in Milnerton on Wednesday. A fourth person was wounded. Police were deployed to the scene at around 9am on Wednesday morning. Detectives said that preliminary findings suggested that the killings were linked to ongoing conflict in the taxi industry. Picture: Leon Lestrade African News Agency
“Their identities are yet to be determined. Preliminary findings are that the incident is linked to taxi conflict,” she said. There has been ongoing taxi conflict in the Western Cape for months and, just as the dust settled, with the main taxi associations – Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association and Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations – along with the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works , reaching agreement to work together in unison.
“The DTPW is continually engaging industry leadership in order to find solutions to the problem. The safety of every transport user is our top priority.
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