{"id":361340,"date":"2025-12-21T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361340\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:08:07","slug":"at-least-nine-people-killed-in-shooting-at-south-africa-tavern-gun-violence-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361340\/","title":{"rendered":"At least nine people killed in shooting at South Africa tavern | Gun Violence News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKINGBREAKING, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">South African police say a manhunt is under way after a mass shooting killed at least nine people and injured 10.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 21 Dec 202521 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow live coverage of South Africa shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2025\/12\/21\/shooting-in-south-africa-live-at-least-nine-people-killed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Armed men have opened fire at a tavern in a township near the city of Johannesburg in South Africa, killing at least nine people and wounding 10, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the police said a manhunt is under way for those involved in the shooting, which took place in the Bekkersdal township just before 1am local time (23:00 GMT on Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is reported that about 12 unknown suspects in a white kombi and a silver sedan opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene,\u201d the police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tavern is licensed,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The South African public broadcaster SABC reported that the unknown attackers opened fire on patrons of the tavern and people in the streets outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still busy obtaining statements. Our national crime and management team has arrived,\u201d SABC reported, quoting Fred Kekana, acting police commissioner of Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe provincial crime scene management team has arrived, and a team from the local criminal record centre is here, so is our serious crime investigating team, crime intelligence and the provincial crime detective team is on scene,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kekana said that a driver with a ride-hailing service who was outside the bar is among those killed.\u00a0A motive for the attack was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Some media reports initially put the death toll at 10, but later revised to nine.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the wounded were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, gunmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/6\/south-africa-shooting-leaves-12-dead-including-young-child-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened fire<\/a> on an unlicensed tavern at a hostel in Saulsville township near the capital Pretoria, killing a dozen people, including a three-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>Shootings in South Africa, which faces high levels of violence, are often fuelled by criminal groups and competition between informal businesses.<\/p>\n<p>More soon\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, South African police say a manhunt is under way after a mass shooting killed at least nine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1926,4,450,3071,7922,451,3,1583,5705,452,453],"class_list":["post-361340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-africa","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}