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Toddler struck by stray bullet in an alleged hit ‘lucky to be alive’

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Toddler struck by stray bullet in an alleged hit ‘lucky to be alive’ A 2-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after she was wounded by a stray bullet following an alleged hit on two men who were gunned down near her Khayelitsha home.

Police found more than 50 bullet casings at the scene where little Alunamda Makhonco was shot while playing with her friends.

Alunamda’s mother, Nomvulo Makhonco, 40, said she was paralysed by fear when she heard the shots because she knew her child was playing outside. “We quickly rushed her to the day hospital where the doctors transferred us to Red Cross Hospital. Luckily, the bullet didn’t do much damage, otherwise she might have suffered a worse fate than the wounds she has now.”

“I always read about children caught in the fights of gangs but never imagined I would be a parent thankful to not have to bury her child.

 

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