Pics: Cape Town station shooting

Published Oct 13, 2015

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Two men dressed in female black Islamic attire fired shots at the Cape Town train station before one committed suicide.

Emergency Medical Service spokesman Robert Daniels said: “At 11.52am (on Tuesday) an unidentified adult male shot himself on platform 24 at Cape Town's railway station. Western Cape Government Health emergency medical services certified the death at 12pm.”

Mayco member for Safety and Security JP Smith said Central City Improvement District (CCID) spotted two suspicious-looking men and as they approached them, they started to run, firing shots. Soon after police arrived at the scene, one of the men turned the gun on himself and the other escaped.

No member of the public was injured in the incident.

IOL and Cape Argus

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