{"id":492226,"date":"2026-06-10T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:50:07","slug":"twelve-killed-nine-injured-in-johannesburg-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492226\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve killed, nine injured in Johannesburg shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people were killed and nine injured yesterday evening when gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, police said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that they had launched a manhunt for more than 10 suspects following the attack at the Jumpers informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the attack is not known.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspects arrived in a white Toyota Quantum, entered the settlement from two access points and opened fire at multiple locations before fleeing in the same vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has one of the world&#8217;s highest murder rates, averaging about 60 a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 12 people were killed and nine injured yesterday evening when gunmen opened fire at an informal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-492226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}