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Eighteen people were killed on Friday in a shootout with police in Makhado, Limpopo, national police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe has said.
National police commissioner General Fannie Masemola, his deputy, and Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya are heading to the crime scene.
More to follow.
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