A security guard has been arrested for attempted murder after a student was shot on the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) main campus in Pretoria on Thursday, police said.
Police spokeswoman Brigadier Sally de Beer said that the security guard was arrested late on Thursday.
The incident happened earlier in the day.
“Apparently the security guard accidently discharged his shotgun at TUT’s main campus and a student was wounded,” she said.
The security guard was apparently one of three who were standing in a group. Two of them fled following the shooting.
De Beer said that immediately following the incident the student was taken to hospital and 11 shotguns were seized.
The severity of the wound sustained by the student was not immediately known.
TUT was the scene of major protests on Thursday in the ongoing #FeesMustFall protests that have gripped the country’s tertiary institutions.
South Africa Today – South Africa News
