{"id":628882,"date":"2026-09-27T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628882\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:18:08","slug":"at-least-17-killed-in-south-africa-shooting-police-hunt-for-eight-suspects-gun-violence-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628882\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 killed in South Africa shooting, police hunt for eight suspects | Gun Violence News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Emergency medical services declared all 17 victims dead \u2060at the \u200bscene in Wedela \u200btownship southwest of \u200bJohannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 27 Sep 202627 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>At least 17 people have been killed and 15 others were wounded in a shooting at a tavern in South Africa\u2019s Gauteng province, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical services declared all 17 victims dead \u2060at the scene in Wedela township southwest of Johannesburg, and \u2060the motive for the shooting was \u2060not known, the South \u2060African Police \u2060Service said early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police are searching for eight suspects, who were \u201creportedly armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Emergency medical services declared all 17 victims dead \u2060at the \u200bscene in Wedela \u200btownship southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1911,3895,42,43,9517,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-628882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-gun-violence","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-south-africa","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}