Horror scenes as gunman shoots and kills passengers who were at the back of a bakkie

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A man hunt has been launched by police in the Free State after a man shot and killed three people and left two critically injured.

The suspect who was driving a VW Polo allegedly shot at passengers who were at the back of a bakkie outside a lodge.

Free State police spokesperson Colonel Thabo Covane said the information at their disposal was that a group of 14 people, six men and eight women, were in a Ford Ranger which had stopped at a guest house in Thaba Nchu at about 2am on Sunday dropping off one of the men.

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Unfortunately, they found the gate locked and waited outside. Covane said while waiting by the gate, a white Volkswagen Polo stopped behind the Ford Ranger, and a man wearing a white top jumped out and started shooting at the people in the bakkie.

"The suspect started shooting at the victims sitting at the back and later fled the scene. A security guard called police, who rushed to the scene,” Covane said.

A patrol vehicle was dispatched to attend to the scene and was told that the injured persons were rushed to the local hospital," he added. On arrival at the hospital, the members found three males lying dead at the back of a white Ford Ranger with gunshot wounds. Two other victims were already admitted at the hospital."

Covane said police have opened three cases of murder and two of attempted murder. He said all the victims were between the ages of 18 and 23 and that several 9mm cartridges had been collected as evidence from the scene. The motive for the shooting is still unknown.


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