Gunmen have shot dead seven women from the same family in a village in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, local media reports.
The unknown gunmen stormed two family homes next to each other, before opening fire.
The governing African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said it had learned of the killings with “great pain and sadness”.
“Clearly something is not right in our province and needs all of us, beyond political affiliations, to join hands in an effort to defeat this new tendency,” its spokesman Mdumiseni Ntuli said.
It is not clear whether the killings are politically motivated.
KwaZulu-Natal has seen a spike in politicall killings, with 35 people murdered since last year.
Two South African news sites are reporting that eight people were killed in the shooting at two homes in KwaZulu-Natal province.
They include six children and two elderly women, News24 and IOL are reporting.
