At least nine people died in a shooting attack at a bar on the outskirts of the South African city of Johannesburg in the early hours of Sunday (21), police said.
Officials said they are looking for about a dozen suspects, whose motives remain unclear.
The attack occurred at 1am at the event site in Bekkersdal, an outlying neighborhood southwest of Johannesburg, and also left 10 other people injured, according to a police publication on X.
“There are reports that around 12 unknown suspects, in a white Kombi and a silver sedan, opened fire on bar patrons and continued shooting randomly as they fled the scene,” the South African Police Service said, asking witnesses to provide information.
which has the largest economy on the continent, but also one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
The number of homicides reached a 20-year high last year; Someone has been killed in the country approximately every 20 minutes, according to quarterly police crime statistics for 2024.
