Two children shot dead in their home in Soshanguve

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Police have launched a manhunt for a suspect following the shooting and killing of two little girls aged 4 and 7 years in an informal settlement popularly know as Nkandla in Soshanguve Ext 7, Changing Spot.

According to police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo, two of those who were shot succumbed to the gunshot injuries. The other four victims were taken to a medical facility for treatment.

“It is reported that armed suspects arrived at a shebeen at Changing Spot Informal Settlement in Soshanguve and fired shots at the patrons,”

“Two of the victims, a man and a woman, died on the scene, and the other four were taken to the nearest medical care centre. The suspects proceeded to a shack in the same area where they allegedly set alight the shack where two young girls were sleeping. They were both certified dead on the scene” said Masondo.

In a video circulating on social media the mother of the two deceased said she was on her way from a stokvel when she first saw flames of her burning shack.

She also said that she entered through the back gate from her neighbors place when she heard a voice of a man speaking to her children asking about their parents where abouts.

After the children said their parents went out, the suspect said they will die for the money their father goes around collecting and sounds of bullets shortly followed. Out of fear Mashaba tried to sneak through the back gate to seek help and that’s when the suspect came out and started chasing her.

The father of the deceased children Louis Manganye says he knows the suspect who is a local business owner. He says he doesn’t know why the man had resorted to such violence and had also shot other four people over the past two days. Manganye says he is part of the local crime prevention forum and they collect donations from the informal settlement dwellers to help maintain order in the community.