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Garden Route residents are warned not to eat shellfish from the sea as a red tide has been observed. The George Municipality says they have received reports from Storms River Mouth, Plettenberg Bay, Swartvlei Beach, Kleinkrantz, Wilderness, Glentana and Mossel Bay.

Police in Gqeberha have identified the man who was gunned down while in his car, which was parked at the Humerail shopping centre in Humewood. Spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says 44-year-old Lisa Faku's body was discovered in the driver's seat of his VW Polo on Saturday night.

Gqeberha police have arrested three males suspected to have been involved in the murder of an Adcockvale man on Saturday afternoon. The suspects, aged 16, 24 and 37, were nabbed in Schauderville shortly after the murder.

SAPS Humewood detectives are seeking the communities assistance in relation to a murder after the body of a 44-year-old man was found in a car in the parking lot of a shopping centre in Humerail on Saturday night. Police attended to a complaint of a shooting at the shopping centre after 10pm.

Three men were shot and killed in Kleinskool in the Northern Areas of Gqeberha on Friday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says at about 11.45 gunshots were heard and police members from Bethelsdorp responded immediately.

A teenager from Albertinia is in police custody after two stolen bikes were found in his possession. Police spokesperson Sergeant Chris Spies says over the festive season six bicycles were stolen from a camping site in Still Bay between 31 December and 9 January.

A warrant of arrest has been issued by Gqeberha police for a rape suspect who absconded his bail in June last year.

A 25-year-old man from the Western Cape who allegedly staged his kidnapping will appear in court on Friday. Spokesperson Captain Frederick van Wyk says it is alleged that the foreign national used his rent money for gambling and decided to stage his kidnapping and extort money from his family.

Three women and two men killed in head-on EC crash.