The Provincial Community Policing Forum (CPF) has condemned the murder of four people believed to be two couples in the Covid-19 informal settlement in Driftsands, near Mfuleni.
The quartet was killed on Wednesday 1 February.
Their bodies were discovered by residents on Thursday 2 February.
The gruesome incident has left the community reeling in shock.
The four were found in two different shacks in the area with their bodies floating in blood.
Police told City Vision they found eight and 11 cartridges at the two scenes.
Provincial CPF chair Francina Lucas said they condemn the ongoing killings around the Cape Flats.
“We call for swift action by the police to arrest the perpetrators of this crime. They need to be hauled before a court of law and answer for their actions,” she said.
Lucas said communities were under siege from violence and criminality.
She also called on residents to come forward anonymously with information that could bring perpetrators to book.
Lucas also encouraged communities to join local structures to fight crime in their respective areas.
The culprits of this gruesome act are still at large.
Western Cape police spokesperson Brig Novela Potelwa said Mfuleni police, as well as crime scene experts, were still scouring a crime scene in Driftsands.
“Reports from the area indicate that a vehicle had entered the Covid-19 informal settlement at about 23:00. Shortly there after, gunshots were heard and the vehicle left the area,” she said.
Potelwa said on Thursday morning residents of the informal settlement discovered two bodies of a man and a woman with gunshot wounds in a shack and alerted the police.
She said a few metres from the one dwelling, inside another shack two more bodies of a man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds.
Potelwa said the victims are yet to be identified. Detectives from the provincial serious and violent crimes are probing the murders.
She urged anyone with information that could assist the police investigations to contact police on 08600 10111 or via the MySAPS App.
