FOUR people, including a four-year old boy, were killed and six injured in fighting on Sunday between rival minibus taxi operators in eastern South Africa, police said. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said the four-year-old died when gunmen opened fire on a taxi owner travelling with his family near Umtata in the southeast of the country. The child’s siblings, aged 13, 20 and 21, were also injured in the attack. In another attack a taxi owner was killed in the east coast city of East London when nine shots were fired at his minibus, police representative Eddie Watson said. There were three more attacks near the small town of Ndevana, also in the Eastern Cape province, in which two people were killed and three other injured, he said. Watson said the violence was believed to be related to ongoing taxi violence in the area. Minibus taxis are the main form of transport for South Africans but turf wars between rival operators in the highly competitive industry has claimed hundreds of lives. – AFP