A man stabbed two people to death and injured two others in an attack at a mosque in South Africa on Thursday, killer gunned down by the police after the tragic incident by police, officers said.
Police have deployed and covered the building in Malmesbury near Cape Town outside which a body lay under a tree and a penknife had been discarded nearby at the scene. The attacker’s motive not clarified.
Police were alerted by early morning worshippers and arrived at Malmesbury’s mosque to find two people had died of stab wounds, Noloyiso Rwexana, spokeswoman for the Western Cape police.
“The suspect believed to be in his thirties and armed with a knife, charged at the police who tried to persuade him to hand himself over,” she said.
“He ignored the calls and tried to attack police. He was shot dead.” Rwexana said police are now “combing the scene for clues”. Local media said the suspect was Somali, but police not sure yet about it.
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), which represents the Muslim community in South Africa, said it was “shocked to the core” over the incident, which came at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The Muslim Judicial Council appealed to the community to not jump to conclusions about the attacker’s motives and said its top leadership would travel to the area to assist the community.
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