JOHANNESBURG - A day after Gauteng police announced a decline in serious and contact crimes, 12 people are shot and killed at Jumpers Informal Settlement in Cleveland.
Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni rejects claims that law enforcement is failing.
However, he acknowledges concern over ongoing mass killings, despite an overall drop in murder cases.
Gunmen stormed an informal settlement in Johannesburg and shot dead 12 people overnight, police said Wednesday, in the latest mass shooting in the crime-weary country.
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The shootings happened before midnight on Tuesday in an impoverished shantytown of metal and wooden shacks near where illegal miners were living and working, police said.
Around 10 attackers were driven to the Jumpers settlement and dropped off before storming the area, a police spokeswoman said.
- Additional reporting AFP