Two shooting incidents in South Africa in which assailants apparently opened fire indiscriminately killed 19 people on Saturday night, South African police said.
Fifteen people were killed on Saturday night in Soweto, near Johannesburg, when the attacker opened fire on the crowd “who was enjoying his time”, while two men randomly opened fire on customers sitting in another bar in Pietermaritzburg (east), killing four people.
Police sources said that the two attacks were carried out in the same way, but it was too early to talk about that.
In Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest shantytown, in the southwest of the country’s economic capital, police received a call to intervene around 00:30.
“When we got to the place, there were twelve dead people, apparently with gunshot wounds,” local police chief Nonhlanhla Kobhaka told AFP.
Eleven wounded people were taken to hospital, two of whom died later, according to what it indicated on Sunday morning.
No details were provided about the attackers. “They arrived and shot the people who were having a good time,” said Kobhica, the commanding officer of the Orlando police station, in Soweto, where the tragedy occurred.
She added that the police did not stop anyone and opened an investigation into the incident, noting that a team of policemen was still at the scene during the morning.
The pub is located in the East Orlando neighborhood of Soweto.
Hundreds of people from the neighborhood gathered behind the barricades set up by the judicial police, in the place. The bodies were moved.
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