The ongoing gun violence in the Hazyview and Calcutta policing areas has claimed two more victims, following the deaths of and additional nine people in the area since Tuesday, December 30.

Hazyview police received information about a shooting incident at the Shabalala Trust outside Hazyview at about 20:20 on Tuesday, January 6.

When they arrived at the scene they found the body of a man next to the local dumping site. He was declared dead at the scene by medical officials.

According to Mpumalanga police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jabu Ndubane, the police recovered 18 spent rifle cartridges and five from a pistol.

“The motive for the attack is unknown at this stage but an investigation is in progress,” said Ndubane.

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She said members of the community informed the police that two more men were seriously wounded during the incident and had already been transported by ambulance to the hospital.

The deceased was identified as Dumisani Ally Magagula, a coach for the local soccer club Countryside Masters.

In the early hours of Monday, January 5, a woman was murdered at her home in the Hlangalezwe section of Mkhuhlu.

Ndubane said the police who were on patrol in the area received information about the shooting and rushed to the scene shortly after midnight. Upon arrival a woman identified herself as the daughter of the victim.

She took the police members to back of the house, where they found the body of Sylvia Goodness Mnisi (52), leaning against a jojo tank with a gunshot wound to her forehead.

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The victim’s daughter told the officers that she had been sleeping in her bedroom when she heard her mother screaming and calling her name.

She said she heard male voices in the house and heard her mother being dragged outside, but was too afraid to leave her room.

“After a while she went and checked on her younger brother in his bedroom and they both went to look for their mother in her bedroom, but she was not there,” said Ndubane.

They checked the house and noticed that the garage door was forced open and the door of their mother’s bedroom was damaged. While busy searching inside the house, they heard two gunshots sounds outside, followed by the footsteps of people running out of the yard. As they peeped through the window they saw three unknown men running away.”

After a while, the two went outside and found that their mother had been killed.

Police recovered a single spent pistol cartridge at the scene. No arrests have been made and police investigations are ongoing.