{"id":461594,"date":"2025-12-21T05:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461594\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:47:12","slug":"at-least-nine-people-killed-in-shooting-at-south-africa-tavern-gun-violence-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461594\/","title":{"rendered":"At least nine people killed in shooting at South Africa tavern | Gun Violence News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">BREAKING<\/strong>BREAKING, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">South African police say a manhunt is under way after a mass shooting killed at least nine people and injured 10.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 21 Dec 202521 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Armed men have opened fire at a tavern in a township near the city of Johannesburg in South Africa, killing at least nine people and wounding 10, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the police said a manhunt is under way for those involved in the shooting, which took place in the Bekkersdal township just before 1am local time (23:00 GMT on Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is reported that about 12 unknown suspects in a white kombi and a silver sedan opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene,\u201d the police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tavern is licensed,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The South African public broadcaster SABC reported that the unknown attackers opened fire on patrons of the tavern and people in the streets outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still busy obtaining statements. Our national crime and management team has arrived,\u201d SABC reported, quoting Fred Kekana, acting police commissioner of Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe provincial crime scene management team has arrived, and a team from the local criminal record centre is here, so is our serious crime investigating team, crime intelligence and the provincial crime detective team is on scene,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the attack was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Some media reports put the death toll at 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen people are dead. We don\u2019t have a breakdown of who they are,\u201d Brigadier Brenda Muridili, police spokesperson for Gauteng province, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the wounded were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>More soon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, South African police say a manhunt is under way after a mass shooting killed at least nine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7779,4219,4222,50,7207,2241,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-461594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gun-violence","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-south-africa","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115755984184987643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}