Suspected taxi related violence has led to the killing of a security guard and the wounding of several others in Nyanga.

Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile said that officials have confiscated at least 20 firearms following the shooting which occurred near a school in the area.

Thirteen of the guns are rifles and the rest are handguns. Nineteen security guards have been taken in for questioning.

It’s understood that a police team comprising of intelligence operatives, the National Intervention Unit, K-9, the drone unit and the provincial combat team were busy monitoring movements in close proximity of the Nyanga taxi rank when shots were exchanged between warring parties.