Seventeen people were killed in two mass shootings in a rural town in South Africa on Saturday, police said.
A search was under way for the suspects, national police spokeswoman Brig Athlenda Mathe said in a statement yesterday.
One other person was in a critical condition.
The shootings took place on Saturday in Lusikisiki.
The shootings occurred at two houses on the outskirts of the town.
Twelve women and a man were killed in one house and three women and a man were killed in the other house, police said. — Agencies
