Two injured in shooting at South Africa's Cape Town airport
Two injured in shooting at South Africa's Cape Town airport
Published: 01:33 pm Oct 18, 2017
CAPE TOWN: Two men were injured in a drive-by shooting at South Africa's Cape Town International Airport, police said on Wednesday. Operations at the airport, the second busiest in the country and a tourism hub, were not affected, police spokesman Vish Naidoo said, adding the motive for the shooting was unknown. The airport is Africa's third busiest and handles around 10 million passengers a year, including tourists and business people commuting to the economic hub Johannesburg. 'A man, about 50 years of age, was shot in a drive-by shooting and in the process a bystander, a 30-year-old man, was also hit,' Naidoo said. The shooting took place in the early morning in a public area some distance from the airport's security gates, Naidoo said. Flights had not been affected, the airport's general manager Deon Cloete said in a statement. 'The shooting scene has been cordoned off while investigations continue,' Cloete said. Local media reported that the shooting was gang-related, but Naidoo could not confirm that was the motive.