Sixteen suspects have been arrested in connection with a taxi-related shooting at the notorious Brooke Street taxi rank in Durban on Friday in which one person died and two people were seriously injured.
Police spokeswoman Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said the suspects would be charged for murder and attempted murder‚ including the shooting of a police officer in Pinetown outside Durban. They would also be charged for illegal possession of firearms.
They are expected to appear in court on Monday. A provincial task team has been assigned to investigate the case and the firearms seized from the suspects will be subjected to ballistic testing to ascertain if they were used in any other pending cases.
At around 5pm on Friday‚ a group of heavily armed men travelling in a Toyota Quantum minibus taxi stormed the taxi rank in Brooke Street and fired multiple gunshots and sped off.