[Garbage like this deserve to die. Jan]

The thrills of a Durban funfair turned to terror as families ran for cover and parents tried to shelter children while a gang shot five people in the head on Saturday night.

Two have died and two are in a critical condition in hospital. Five men, aged 27 to 30, who had been gambling at Bally’s Funfair in Foxglove Road, Asherville were shot when an armed group entered the fair and opened fire.

ER24 paramedic Patrick Nesbitt said it was a bloodbath: “One man died before we could arrive. The other four sustained gunshot wounds to the head but were alive.”

The survivors were taken to Addington Hospital whre a second man died a few hours later.

Captain Myentherin Lazarus, spokesperson for Sydenham Police Station, said only some information could be divulged.

He said the incident happened very quickly when several suspects arrived in a white bakkie (truck) and opened fire with automatic weapons a few metres from the amusement park attraction, the “Wall of Death”.

“Everyone ran for cover. Five men – believed to have been together at the fair – were each shot in the head and one also in a leg,” Lazarus said.

“Two have been confirmed dead and another two victims are in a critical condition. The man shot in a leg has been stabilised. No other injuries were reported.”

Police found more than 20 shells cases but on Sunday, when the Daily News visited the scene, funfair workers said they had found at least eight more.

Phillip Dlamini, a worker who saw the incident, said: “I was letting people into the Wall of Death when I saw three men run into the fair with guns.

“They pointed them at some men at the gambling table and began shooting. Everybody started running – so did I.”

He said it was ironic that it took place so close to the Wall of Death where a sign reads: “Every revolution of the wheel brings death closer and closer” and “Every performance adds a nail to his coffin”.

The fair was cordoned off on Saturday night but was open on Sunday. Dlamini said they would not be there much longer.

“We were supposed to be here for the next three weeks but we cannot stay. It is too dangerous.”

A nearby resident, Kevin Pandram, said he was still in shock: “I ws watching TV when we heard more than 50 gunshots.”

Lazarus said police expected to make an arrest soon. Two cases of murder and three of attempted murder were being investigated though the motive was not yet known.

In another incident, a brawl between two men and a woman on the corner of Berea and Vause roads on Sunday ended in tragedy when one man was was shot in the head.

The other and the woman were also shot and wounded and taken to hospital.

A case of murder and two of attempted murder are being investigated.

This article was originally published on page 1 of Daily News on November 28, 2005

Source: Independent Online (IOL)
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