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Crime has become a scourge of everyday life in South Africa, with a Gauteng family’s home recently hit by a stray bullet during a shoot-out.

According to the Kempton Express, the bullet hit a young girl’s room in Rhodesfield at about 1.40am, leaving the family shaken.

The gunbattle between criminals and security personnel followed the ransacking of a liquor warehouse in the area.

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