The shooting victims, including 15 women, were killed while attending a family gathering near the town of Lusikisiki in a rural area of Eastern Cape province. South Africa, a country of 62 million, recorded 12,734 homicides in the first six months of this year, according to official crime statistics from the police.
Seventeen people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shootings that took place in close proximity to each other in a rural town in South Africa, police said Saturday.
