KWAZULU-NATAL. A seven-year-old boy was in a house on Wednesday evening when three armed men shot two men in the Qedumona area of Amaotana. One man, 30, was shot dead and a second man was wounded. The boy was unharmed.
Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) said a call for help was received at approximately 19:50. According to Rusa, the two men were together with the minor boy in the wooden-and-corrugated-iron shack when the three suspects arrived on foot. A verbal altercation reportedly broke out before the men were shot.
The wounded man was taken to hospital by private vehicle before Rusa arrived at the scene, while the second man was reportedly dead when he was loaded into the vehicle. Rusa paramedics declared him dead at the scene. A discharged nine millimetre cartridge case was found at the scene.
According to witnesses, the attackers appeared to be younger than 20 years old.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
