The person significantly wounded the police officer from whom he seized the firearm. (Representational)
A person on Saturday wrested a gun from a policeman, went on a rampage and shot lifeless two sufferers inside a South African hospital, police stated.
He additionally significantly wounded the police officer from whom he seized the firearm in Cape City.
The “sufferers have been shot lifeless and a police official was significantly injured on Saturday night inside a neighborhood hospital when a 40-year-old man took the firearm of a police official and fired a number of pictures,” police spokesman brigadier Novela Potelwa stated in an announcement.
Police had taken a suspect needing medical consideration to Somerset Hospital, close to the V&A Waterfront, a well-liked spot for each native and worldwide vacationers.
The person grabbed the policeman’s firearm, shot him within the head after which gunned down “two sufferers who have been in his proximity” earlier than different law enforcement officials disarmed him.
South Africa has one of many world’s highest homicide charges for a rustic not at conflict.
Final yr Cape City’s homicide fee was by far the best within the nation, at 64 killings per 100,000 individuals, in comparison with Johannesburg’s fee of 37. New York’s was 5.5.
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