Police
Shoot and Wound Protesters over Non – Service Delivery
Two
people killed in protest in Mothotlung
Two people have been killed and two more injured in a stand-off between
protesters and police during a service delivery picket.
Police confirmed that two people were killed and another two injured in
a stand-off between protesters and police near Brits in the North West, eNCA reported on Monday.
Two protesters were shot dead and two were wounded during a service
delivery protest, said Colonel Sabata Mokgobone. Police were called to monitor
protesters after they barricaded a road with burning tyres.
Leon Basson, a Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor in the Madibeng
municipality told the Mail & Guardian that the protest involved
members from Brits and Mothotlung communities.
He said the communities were connected by the same
broken water pipe and had been without water for a week. They were en route to
the municipal offices when "something went wrong … and the police opened
fire".
The municipality's purification pump and standby pump were both broken,
he said.
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