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3 kids among 7 family members shot dead as they watched TV in their home in South Africa: "It was an execution"

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A 5-year-old boy was among those killed in the shooting at a homestead in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.

The motive for the attack in the Highflats area, about 50 miles northwest of the coastal city of Durban , was not yet known.

South Africa has one of the highest peacetime homicide rates in the world.

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86

Informative language

85

Neutral language

81

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

Offensive language

offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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