FIVE women bus passengers were injured — two of them seriously — when gunmen opened fire on a bus in Khayelitsha on Saturday morning, Golden Arrow Bus Services spokeswoman Jeanne Welsh said. Welsh said the bus was driving in Block 23 around 7.15am when the incident happened. Three people sustained cuts and bruises from shattered glass, one was shot in the head and knee and another in the back. She said men in a red Toyota Corolla, armed with R4 and R5 rifles, fired shots at the bus from both sides. Police found 42 empty cartridges on the scene and there were 26 bullet holes in the bus. No arrests were made, but the provincial commissioner had offered a reward of R250000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunmen. The latest incident is believed to be related to the ongoing violence between taxi and bus drivers in Khayelitsha. On Thursday, a bus driver and eight passengers were injured when two Golden Arrow buses came under fire in the township. The attacks were the latest of more than 50 shootings since taxi associations first clashed with Golden Arrow Bus Services on March 27 over control of lucrative passenger routes in the Cape Flats. Since then, three Golden Arrow bus drivers and a taxi driver have been shot dead, dozens of commuters wounded and buses petrol-bombed and stoned.
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