An urgent meeting has been held between Nelson Mandela Bay’s political leadership and senior police officials after the killing of several people in a flurry of suspected gang-related shootings in the northern areas on Monday.

Mayor Gary van Niekerk, his deputy Babalwa Lobishe and the city’s safety and security political head, Stag Mitchell, met a police delegation on Tuesday led by Bay district commissioner Major-General Vuyisile Ncata to devise collaborative strategies to combat crime...