Two stabbed to death in South Africa mosque, attacker killed

A man stabbed to death two people at a South African Mosque before being shot dead by police. [Photo: AFP]

A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack at a mosque in South Africa on Thursday, before being shot dead by police, officers said.

Police have surrounded the building in Malmesbury near Cape Town outside which a body lay under a tree and a penknife had been discarded nearby, said an AFP correspondent at the scene. The attacker's motive remains unclear.