Overview
- SAPS reports the confrontation occurred Monday in Amatikwe, Inanda, where officers recovered two firearms at the scene.
- One of the deceased is believed to have been wanted in ten murder cases, including an incident reported over the weekend, according to police statements.
- Officers say they traced the suspects to a two-room shack identified through intelligence before the shootout began.
- Police note a similar operation last month in Amatikwe Area 2 in which four wanted suspects were fatally shot during an exchange of gunfire.
- Separately in the Western Cape, police opened murder and attempted murder dockets after three men and a woman were shot dead and one person injured in Philippi East, with no arrests reported.