Three Lesotho nationals were charged with murder and attempted murder when they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court in South Africa on Thursday.
They are some of the people believed to be behind a mass shooting at an informal settlement in the east of the city earlier this month, in which 13 people died and 14 others were injured.
According the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the suspects, aged between 26 and 34, were arrested after being pointed out to police by some of the survivors.
The motive for the attack has been linked to turf wars between illegal miners operating on abandoned or disused mine shafts in the area.
Police said about 10 attackers were dropped off at both entrances of the settlement late at night and opened fire as they moved through, before being picked up afterwards by a vehicle.
