Gunman Faces Down Club-Wielding Gang To Save Pals

Story ByMichael Leidig, Sub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyCentral European News

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This is the moment two groups square up to each other armed with golf clubs, hockey sticks and machetes but then flee when a gunman marches into their midst firing shots indiscriminately.

The gunmen appeared to be linked in with the small group that were on the left of the video footage posted online, which was shot in broad daylight reportedly in Chatsworth, south of the South African city of Durban.

The incident was being filmed from somebody in the first floor above the street. Both sides are reportedly members of rival gangs, and as a group of men marched towards the smaller group that seem to have recently climbed out of a small car and the violence starts, a man in a black top pulls out a gun and fires it, causing the two groups to scatter.

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He repeatedly fires warning shots which sees the other side moving away but not completely, and he uses the gun to keep them at bay before climbing into the silver car and speeding off.

Police are reportedly looking into the matter but have declined to comment. There are no reports if anybody was injured even though one person looks as if they might have been hit by ricocheting bullet on the leg and appears to be limping.

It is unclear who shot the video but at one point they can be seen fleeing inside the building from a staircase when the gunmen appears to point his weapon at them.

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