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Seventeen people, including 15 women, were ******* in two mass shootings that took place in close proximity to each other in a rural town in South *******, police said Saturday.

A search was underway for the suspects, national police spokesperson Brig. Athlenda Mathe said in a statement. The victims were 15 women and two men, she said. One other person was in critical condition in the hospital.

The shootings took place Friday night in the town of Lusikisiki in Eastern Cape province in southeastern South *******. Video released by police showed that the shootings occurred at two houses in the same neighborhood, which is a collection of rural homesteads on the outskirts of the town.

Twelve women and a man were ******* in one house and three women and a man were ******* in the other house, police said.

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Four women, one man and a 2-month-old baby survived.

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“A manhunt has been launched to apprehend those behind these heinous killings,” Mathe said.

Local media reported that the people were attending a family gathering at the time of the *********, but the motive for the killings ******** unknown.

Police minister Senzo Mchunu told a media briefing on Saturday that a team of detectives and forensic experts had been deployed.

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“We have full ****** and confidence in the team that has been deployed to ****** this case and find these **********. Either they hand themselves over or we will fetch them ourselves,” Mchunu said.

South *******, a country of 62 million, recorded 12,734 homicides in the first six months of this year, according to official ****** statistics from the police. That’s an average of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the biggest cause of deaths in those cases.

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Mass shootings have become increasingly common in recent years, sometimes targeting people in their homes.

Ten members of the same family, including seven women and a 13-year-old boy, 

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 at their home in the neighboring KwaZulu-Natal province in April 2023.

Firearm laws are reasonably strict in South *******, but authorities have often pointed to the large number of ********, unregistered guns in circulation as a major problem.

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