Three people, including a four-month-old baby, were injured in a shooting in Athlone.
|||Athlone - Three people, including a four-month-old baby, were injured in a shooting in Athlone, Cape Town, on Wednesday, Western Cape police said.
“Two armed criminals opened fire at two adult victims at their residence in Athlone,” Lt-Col Andre Traut said in a statement.
Traut said the 39-year-old woman and the 29-year-old man were each holding a four-month-old baby in their arms.
“The two adult victims were each hit in the chest. The one baby, a girl, sustained a superficial wound to her arm, and the other baby, a boy, escaped unharmed.”
The condition of the two adults was not known, and the baby was “doing well under the circumstances”.
No arrests had been made yet.
A public meeting would be held on Thursday at 5pm at Anemone Court in Athlone to discuss gang-related problems. - Sapa