In South Africa, two shootings took place in the night from Saturday to Sunday, in a bar in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and in a bar in Pietermaritzburg, in the east of the country. They claimed 18 victims according to an initial assessment.
In Soweto, in the Orlando East district, the toll is fourteen victims. The police say they were called in the night from Saturday to Sunday, around 00:30. ” When we arrived there, twelve people were dead, with gunshot wounds. “, specified, with the AFP, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, commander of the police station of Orlando, the district of Soweto where the tragedy took place. Eleven injured were taken to hospital where two of them died.
No details on the assailants were available. ” They came and shot the people having fun “, she said, before adding that the police have not made any arrests and that an investigation has been opened.
And in Pietermaritzburg
Four more people were killed in another shootout that broke out at another bar, this time in the eastern town of Pietermaritzburg on Saturday at around 8.30pm, the local police spokesman confirmed. , Nqobile Gwala.
” At 8:30 p.m. a group of people were having drinks in a tavern and a car parked in front “, he specified in a press release before adding that ” two men jumped out of the car, entered the bar and opened fire indiscriminately at customers “.
The victims are between 30 and 45 years old. An investigation has also been opened.