Eighteen suspects shot and killed in shoot-out with South African police
Eighteen suspects have been shot and killed during a shoot-out with South African police.
The incident happened in Makhado in the country’s northernmost Limpopo province, according to a statement from the elite police unit The Hawks.
Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe gave no more immediate information but local media reported that the 18 people who died were in a gang suspected of robbing armoured vans carrying cash for banks.
The shoot-out came after a tragic week in South Africa, in which at least 74 people died in a fire at an apartment complex in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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