SAA event in South Africa on Wed 23rd October 2024

Five people were gunned down and five others wounded in a mass shooting on Wednesday in South Africa's southwestern province of Western Cape, said local police on Thursday.

"Anti-Gang Unit detectives are hard at work in search of gunmen who shot and killed five people and injured five others on Wednesday evening in Atlantis," Novela Potelwa, provincial police spokesperson, said in a statement.

Atlantis is a small town in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality in the Western Cape. It is located about 40 km north of the Cape Town Central Business District.

"Reports from the scene indicate the victims of the shooting incident were returning home in three vehicles from the Silverstream beach when yet-to-be-identified gunmen opened fire on the vehicles on the corner of Old Mamre and Silverstream roads," said Potelwa.

As a result, five people between the ages of 18 and 30 were fatally wounded, and five others were taken to a medical facility with gunshot wounds, according to the spokesperson.