Scholar transport ambushed amid taxi violence flare-up

A 35-YEAR-OLD woman transporting schoolchildren was ambushed on Onverwacht Road in Strand yesterday, where according to witnesses, she was shot in the face and chest as young children sat in the vehicle.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

She was among three people wounded and two taxi drivers killed in separate shootings in Strand and Macassar yesterday morning, in what police believe were unrelated incidents.

The shootings follow two attacks on Monday, where three people were killed and six others wounded in Khayelitsha and Philippi in what is suspected to be taxi rival shootings.

Community members described being startled by the sudden gunfire yesterday.

“We didn’t see who shot at the taxi, but when we went outside to look, we saw the woman and the children were visibly shocked. A car came to take the victim to the hospital,” one resident said.

Minutes later, another woman rushed to the scene in a panic, fearing her neighbour's child might have been among the victims.