South African police said on Friday that according to initial reports 10 family members had been killed in a mass shooting in Pietermaritzburg in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
"According to initial police reports, unknown gunmen stormed a Pietermaritzburg homestead and ambushed the family. Seven women and three men were fatally wounded during the shooting," South Africa's police ministry said in statement.
Police Minister Bheki Cele and the top management of the South African Police Service will visit the crime scene later in the day, the statement added.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
