At least 18 people were killed last Saturday night in South Africa in two separate incidents of gunfire in a bar, police said today.
In the eastern South African city of Pietermaritzburg, four people died and eight others were injured in a shooting incident that occurred at 20:30 (local time) in a bar in the city.
"At 20:30 a group of people were having a drink in a nightclub when a vehicle stopped in front of the bar," police explained. "Two men got out of the vehicle, entered the bar and opened fire indiscriminately on the customers," it added."
Double attack
Twelve people were hit by bullets: two died at the scene and two others succumbed to their injuries later in hospital. Eight others are still being treated.
The dead are between 30 and 45 years old.
Shortly before, it was reported that 14 people were killed in a shooting at a bar in Soweto, near Johannesburg.
[BR][BR]Police received a call shortly after midnight. "We arrived at the scene, twelve people were dead having sustained bullet wounds," local police official Nonhlanhla Kubeka explained.
Eleven of the injured were taken to hospital and two of them succumbed shortly afterwards, she added.
According to the commander of the Orlando Police Department's Soweto district, the perpetrators of the attack "arrived on the scene and shot at the people who were partying."
As Kubeka explained, police are still on the scene and have launched an investigation into the incident, although they have not yet made any arrests.
Source: APE-MPA
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