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Goedemoed shooting

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Weapons
  
Two pistols

Perpetrator
  
L. S. Hasebeng

Locations
  
South Africa, Goedemoed

Non-fatal injuries
  
4

Date
  
25 August 1992

Deaths
  
9 (including the perpetrator)

Attack types
  
Mass murder, Murder–suicide

The Goedemoed shooting was a mass murder that occurred at the prison complex in Goedemoed, a town in Orange Free State, South Africa on August 25, 1992, when police constable L. S. Hasebeng killed eight people and wounded four others, before committing suicide.

Victims

  • Tseliso George, police assistant
  • Constable S. Gabriel Lekhula
  • Cynthia Lekhula, wife of Gabriel Lekhula
  • Phalisa Lekhula, 4, daughter of Gabriel and Cynthia Lekhula
  • Ernestina Mile, 21, daughter of Cynthia Lekhula
  • Mavis Mile, 17, daughter of Cynthia Lekhula
  • Adjutant officer Chris E. Schutte, commander of Goedemoed police
  • Vakele Tyu, police assistant
  • Those wounded were constable Lucas Musi, police assistant Pakiso Ramarumo, captain Bettie van Wyk, and eight-year-old Thobela Dumayi.

    References

    Goedemoed shooting Wikipedia


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