Two people are in a critical condition after sustaining several gunshot wounds while three others sustained serious injuries.
Exact detail to the cause of the incident and preceding events will remain a subject for police investigation and comment.
Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the Spar in Inanda Road at around mid-day and found a female in her seventies and a male in his fifties in a critical condition while three workers sustained serious injuries.
Paramedics worked fervently to stabilize the injured on scene before transporting them to various hospitals in the area for the care that they required.