South Africa has been rocked by another bomb explosion, this time at a police station on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape.
On Saturday night, an explosive device went off at the Bishop Lavis police station, shattering the front doors and windows. Nobody was injured.
Police representative Superintendent Neville Malila said on Sunday morning that it was not known what the explosive device was and where it had been placed. Forensic experts were continuing to search the scene for clues.
The province’s safety and security MEC Leonard Ramatlakane condemned the blast.
Asked if there was a connection between this blast and a series of bomb explosions in Gauteng last month, the MEC said he would not speculate at this stage.
On October 30, two people were injured when a bomb’s detonator exploded at a temple in Bronkhorstpruit, east of Pretoria, and a woman was killed and her husband injured by falling shrapnel from one of nine blasts in Soweto, south of Johannesburg.
There has been a spate of bomb hoaxes across the country over the past weeks, however, police do not believe there is a link between the hoaxes and the Gauteng blasts.
Although police have not made any arrests in connection with the Gauteng blasts, a rightwing group, the Boeremag, has been linked to the explosions.
National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi told the National Assembly’s safety and security committee earlier this week that police were certain that members of the Boeremag organisation were behind the blasts.
No arrests have been made in connection with Saturday’s blast. – Sapa