Gauteng taxi drivers ambushed and killed in KZN
Eleven taxi drivers have been shot dead in an alleged taxi related shooting on the R74 in KwaZulu-Natal.
National police confirmed in a statement the victims were members of the Ivory Park Taxi Association in Gauteng.
The vehicle was from Gauteng and transporting its passengers back to the province, after they attended a funeral in the Greytown area.
The funeral was for one of the members of a Gauteng taxi association who had been killed.
National police spokesperson Vishnu Naidoo says the taxi was led into an ambush on the road between Colenso and Weenen on Saturday evening.
"Preliminary reports indicate that the eleven were among seventeen people that were traveling in a taxi coming from a funeral in the province heading back to Johannesburg," says Naidoo.
Four people were critically wounded and recuperating in hospital, while another two passengers escaped unharmed.
Naidoo says National police commissioner General Khehla Sitole has called on the taxi industry and families of the deceased to remain calm and allow for the investigations to continue.
The Acting Provincial Commissioner of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and his management team are overseeing the investigation into these murders.
KZN police spokesperson Jay Naicker says no arrests have been met yet.