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Taxis queueing at a taxi rank.
Police say 19 security guards have been taken in for questioning in connection with a fatal shooting that left one person dead at the Nyanga taxi rank on the Cape Flats.
Seven others were wounded.
Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile says 13 rifles and seven handguns have been confiscated.
The incident is being investigated by the provincial taxi task team.
Patekile says the shooting was between two warring groups within the same taxi organisation.
“So, they were shooting at each other, guarding different groups within the same association. The motive at this stage, we are informed that it is about money. There is bucket money or collection money that get collected in the taxi industry, which is used for various things. That’s where the gist of the matter is.”
#sapsWC Western Cape police have confiscated 13 rifles and seven hand guns following an early morning shooting incident that left one taxi security guard deceased and seven injured in what is believed to be intra taxi association conflict in Nyanga. Nineteen security guards are… pic.twitter.com/6ANErDJLHO
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