Fatal shooting at TUT
Gauteng police have confirmed the killing of a person at the Soshanguve Campus of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) on Thursday evening.
Police have launched a probe into the circumstances leading to the killing.
Its unclear at this stage who fired the shot, when violence erupted during the elections of a new Student Representative Council in the north of Pretoria.
Neither Police nor the TUT have been able to confirm whether it was a student that was killed.
Several other people were also injured during the chaos.
Its alleged that the motive behind the violence are claims that the elections were rigged.
"So far, we are going to investigate the circumstances of the incident as we are not clear what actually transpired," says police spokesperson, Kay Makhubele.
SRC election ballots paper throw out side 😂😂😂#TUT pic.twitter.com/dwp0VZ4RTb
— given (@givenmkhwanazi5) August 23, 2018
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— Pheladi👑 (@palesa_chidi) August 23, 2018
A student was allegedly shot deadðŸ˜ðŸ˜...this is sad pic.twitter.com/wb7ZimClIQ
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— #RememberMarikana (@LiberalsAreNaiv) August 23, 2018
What was meant to be #SRC elections turned into festival of chairs, one student reportedly shot dead by cops😢
The #ANC modelled this behaviour very well👌#Soshanguve #TUTSRC2018 pic.twitter.com/Yr3iNhivGn
TUT spokesperson, Willa de Ruyter says various meetings with management and police will be taking place on Friday.
"We have not released the name of the person yet, as soon as we have all the information we will issue a complete statement."
On Friday morning, De Ruyter confirmed the Soshanguve Campus returned to calm and classes will resume.