A manhunt is underway after 17 people living on the same street in a South African village were killed in a mass shooting, police said.

Two homes were targeted in the shootings early Saturday in Ngo-bo-zana village in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, the country’s police ministry said in a statement, adding that six people, including a two-month-old baby, survived the attack.

A team of detectives and forensic experts have been deployed to piece all evidence together in a bid to apprehend the suspects, police said about the manhunt for the killers.

Mass shootings are common in South Africa where murder is at a 20-year high.  According to recent police data, more than 6,000 people were murdered across the country between April and June this year.

The police ministry said that more than 53,000 suspects who are wanted for violent crimes including murder had been arrested in the last month and over 400 illegal and unregistered firearms seized.