DURBAN - TWO people were gunned down on Friday in separate incidents in KwaMashu and on the M4 Southern Freeway near Wentworth.
Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said that on Friday morning, paramedics received a call from Marshall Security Operations Centre at 7.40am about a shooting at a business premises next to Bridge City Shopping Centre in KwaMashu.
Herbst said reports indicated that a security officer guarding a funeral parlour had been gunned down by an unknown number of assailants.
“On arrival at the scene the adult male guard was found lying face down in a pool of blood, surrounded by at least 12 high calibre bullet casings,” he said.
According to Herbst, when the man was assessed he showed no signs of life and was declared deceased on the scene.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident on Friday night just after 8.30pm Emer-G-Med Paramedics responded to the scene of a shooting incident on the M4 Southern Freeway on ramp from Quality Street.
Emer-G-Med spokesperson Kyle van Reenen said reports from the scene indicated that a male driver, who was approximately 40 years of age, was found lying next to his vehicle.
He said the victim’s white Hyundai was peppered with bullet holes.
“Closer inspection found the man to have sustained fatal injuries and he was declared dead on arrival of paramedics,” said Van Reenen.
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