A man has attacked worshipers at a mosque in South Africa with a knife, killing at least two people.<\/p>\n
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A man has attacked worshipers at a mosque in South Africa with a knife, killing at least two people.<\/p>\n
The deadly incident occurred in Malmesbury, a small town in South Africa\u2019s Western Cape Province, on Thursday morning, local police said.<\/p>\n
Police added that several other people had also been wounded in the attack before the assailant was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n
\u201cMalmesbury police were called out to a local mosque and found two people dead with stab wounds and several injured,\u201d said Noliyoso Rwexana, a spokesperson for the Western Cape police.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cDurant said the assailant attempted to cut an old man\u2019s head off with his knife \u201cand the man died.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow worshipers also said that the suspect, believed to be a foreign national in his 30s, had not raised suspicions before the sudden rampage.<\/p>\n
The assault came at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and some five weeks after another attack at a Shia mosque in Verulam, in South Africa\u2019s KwaZulu-Natal, in which one person was killed and two others sustained critical injuries when knife-wielding men attacked worshipers. The suspects in that attack, who also torched the mosque before fleeing, have not been arrested yet.<\/p>\n
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