Families of Lusikisiki massacre victims too scared to return home

Household selling the stands, relocating

01 October 2024 - 06:30
By Lulamile Feni
A total of 18 people died in   a hail of bullets when gunmen opened fire and killed 17people in two homesteads of two sisters in Ngobozana in Lusikisiki. The 18th died in hospital hours later.
Image: Lulamile Feni A total of 18 people died in a hail of bullets when gunmen opened fire and killed 17people in two homesteads of two sisters in Ngobozana in Lusikisiki. The 18th died in hospital hours later.

The families of the 18 victims shot dead in Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki at the weekend are too terrified to return there – even for their funerals.

Lonwabo Sinqina, who is spokesperson for the Sinqina family, said: “Nobody is safe here, not even the dead. We are planning to exhume all these graves and demolish or sell the houses. Twenty people have been shot dead here.”

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