Another weekend, another tavern tragedy

Meanwhile, a disciplinary hearing turned deadly in Eshowe, as three people are gunned down. Police in KwaZulu-Natal are investigating three counts of murder and one attempted murder after another tavern shooting. Tavern shootings have become a regular occurrence, especially on weekends, in a country battling to respond to a scourge of gun violence and mass murders. In the latest mass shooting, an off-duty police constable allegedly shot and killed three women and injured a man before turning the gun on himself at KwaMsane in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police said they responded to reports of a shooting at a liquor establishment in the region. When they arrived, they found four bodies with gunshot wounds, and one victim with a gunshot wound who was taken to hospital. “It is reported that the off-duty police constable also disarmed another man of his firearm during the incident. Both firearms were found at the scene.” The cause of the shooting is so far unknown. Disciplinary turns deadly A few hours later, and in another part of the province, a man allegedly shot and killed three people at a grocery chain store in Eshowe. The suspect, who is a former employee of the store, had gone in for an internal disciplinary hearing when he allegedly produced a firearm and shot three people. They were declared dead at the scene, and a manhunt for the man is underway. This is a developing story