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South Africa shooting: Manhunt underway as 17 people killed in Eastern Cape village attack

Seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators, police say.

Two homesteads in the town of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape were targeted, police said, with 12 women and one man killed in one location, and three women and one man at a second location.

An 18th victim is in a critical condition in hospital, the South Africa Police Service said.

The police ministers and commissioner are due to give a national briefing at 13:00 Saturday local time (12:00 BST).


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