‘We tried to hide’: Manhunt after 18 people killed in South Africa mass shooting

(BBC NEWS) — Eighteen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators, police say.

Two homesteads on the same street in the town of Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape, were targeted, police said, with 12 women and one man killed in one location, and three women and one man at a second location.

The 18th victim died in hospital on Sunday, the South Africa Police Service said.

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