Two men and a woman posing as passengers fired shots into a taxi that stopped to pick them up, killing one person.
|||Cape Town - Two men and a woman posing as passengers fired shots into a minibus taxi that stopped to pick them up near the Tygervalley Mall, killing one passenger.
The incident happened on the corner of Old Oak and Durban Road near the mall at 2pm on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana said the three suspects were still at large: “Two men and a woman were waiting for the taxi to pick them up. When the taxi arrived, they opened the sliding door and started shooting at the driver and the passenger who was sitting in the front seat. During the incident, the passenger… was fatally wounded.”
Kinana said the driver was unharmed and police had opened a case of murder and attempted murder.
The shooting comes amid violence between taxi drivers operating on the Khayelitsha to Delft route that has claimed as many as six driver’s lives in recent months.
The taxi violence stems from a dispute between two taxi bodies, the Delft Taxi Association and the Congress of the Democratic Taxi Associations.
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Cape Argus