“At 8.30pm a group of people were drinking in a nightclub when a vehicle pulled up in front of the bar. “Two men got out of the vehicle, entered the bar and opened fire indiscriminately on customers,” police said.
At least 18 people were killedn yesterday Saturday evening at South Africa in two separate incidents with bar shootingsit was announced today by the police.
In the city of Pietermaritzburg, in the eastern part of South Africa, four people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting incident that took place at 20:30 (local time) at a bar in the city.
#SouthAfrica South African police say 14 killed in bar shooting in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, reports AP#SouthAfrica #Johannesburg pic.twitter.com/7B5YPFV81k
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“At 20:30 a group of people were drinking in a nightclub when a vehicle pulled up in front of the bar“, explained the police. “Two men got out of the vehicle, entered the bar and opened fire indiscriminately on the customers“, he added.
#BREAKING #doubleshooting
Police say 4 people were killed during a shootout at a bar in Pietermaritzburg, eastern South Africa. Earlier on Sunday, police said 14 people were killed in a shootout overnight #Sowetonear Johannesburg. pic.twitter.com/cS8nXi7vk0— Our World (@OurWorld91027476) July 10, 2022
Twelve people were hit by bullets: two died on the spot and two others succumbed to their injuries later in hospital. Eight more are still hospitalized.
The dead are between 30 and 45 years old.
🔴SOUTH AFRICA :#VIDEO MASS SHOOTING AT A BAR IN SOWETO TOWN IN JOHANNESBURG!
14 people killed & 3 others in critical condition.
Group of men opened fire on people in the bar on Saturday night#BreakingNews #Soweto #Johannesburg #MassShooting #Shooting pic.twitter.com/Yo1saNtg34
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A little earlier it was known that 14 people killed in Soweto bar shooting, near Johannesburg.
Police received a call shortly after midnight. “We reached the spot, twelve people were dead with bullet wounds“, explained Nonhlanhla Kubeka, a local police official.
Eleven injured people were taken to hospital and two of them succumbed shortly afterwards, he added.
According to the commander of the Orlando police station, Soweto district, the perpetrators of the attack “arrived at the scene and shot at the people who were having fun”.
As Kubeka explained, police are still at the scene and have launched an investigation into the incident, although no arrests have yet been made.
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