The Independent Complaints Directorate is investigating a charge of murder against Pretoria flying squad members after a civilian was accidentally shot and killed on Sunday.

The officers opened fire on an air force pilot's grey Toyota Conquest, which they mistook for a hijacked grey Toyota Corolla, which had been spotted near a taxi rank in Mabopane in northern Pretoria.

SAAF Captain Simon Mathibela escaped unharmed but he is calling for the officers to face action after they killed one of his passengers and wounded two others.

The ICD's Moses Dlamini says a full investigation is underway.

"[There was no] siren, just one flash of blue lights and shots fired. My brothers got shot and a friend of mine died," Mathibela told Eyewitness News, hours after the incident.

Gun Free South Africa's Alan Storey says National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele and President Jacob Zuma should take a hard look at their so-called shoot-to-kill comments.

"Life is not a Hollywood production, people with guns get killed and innocent people get killed," says Storey.

A post mortem will be conducted on the dead woman on Monday.

The ICD says the officer who shot her in the head will face a charge of murder once ballistic tests confirm which officer fired the shots which wounded the three people.

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