According to police, the shots in South African bars were “random”. Twitter photo
A violent night went through South Africa this Saturday, where it was two shootings in bars of Soweto, near Johannesburg, and Pietermaritzburg, in the east of the country, which led to the death to 18 people. Furthermore, it has been officially reported that there is at least three seriously injured.
The first episode took place in Soweto, a city located 24 km southwest of the provincial capital of Gauteng. “We got a call shortly after midnight. There were 12 dead when we got there,” said the district lieutenant, Elias Mawela.
In addition, he specified that eleven of the injured were transported to hospital, where two died from their injuries and at least three were hospitalized with their lives compromised at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
From the number of cartridges found, they estimate that there were several shooters at the Soweto bar.
According to reports to the police by witnesses of the attack, while some officers were removing the bodies from the place, a group of men had arrived in a minibus taxi and shot some of the customers in the bar Saturday evening.
The number of cartridges found at the scene indicated this there were several shooters, according to police commissioner Mawela.
“He was shot at random,” police said.
“Preliminary investigations suggest that these people were enjoying themselves here in a licensed tavern that operated during licensed hours,” Mawela told The Associated Press.
He added: “Suddenly they heard gunshots, that’s when people tried to escape from the tavern. Right now we don’t have all the details on whyand why did they attack these people?
“You can see that a large-caliber weapon was used and it was fired at random. You can see that each of these people was trying to leave the tavern,” added Mawela.
The other shooting in Pietermaritzburg
Police sources also confirmed this four people died Saturday night in a bar in Pietermaritzburg, the capital and second largest city of the KwaZulu-Natal province, located in East South Africa.
The shooting took place around 8:30 pm (local time) in a city bar and it also left eight injuredThis was confirmed by local police spokesman Nqobile Gwala.
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