{"id":37036,"date":"2025-12-06T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37036"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:57:37","slug":"south-africa-hostel-shooting-leaves-11-dead-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/south-africa-hostel-shooting-leaves-11-dead-police\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa hostel shooting leaves 11 dead: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 6:<\/strong> Gunmen stormed a hostel in South Africa&#8217;s capital Pretoria on Saturday, killing 11 people including a three?year?old child, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack is the latest in a string of mass shootings that have shocked the crime-weary country of 63 million people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot,&#8221; police spokeswoman Athlenda Mathe said, adding that 14 had been hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>Ten had died at the scene in Saulsville township, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of Pretoria, while another died in hospital, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Three gunmen entered the premise at around 4:30 am (0230 GMT) and indiscriminately fired at a group of men who were drinking.<\/p>\n<p>One 12-year-old and a 16-year-old were also killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quite an unfortunate incident. Police were only alerted to this incident at around 6 o&#8217;clock,&#8221; said Mathe.<br \/>\nThe motive of the shooting was unknown and no arrests had been made.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, the continent&#8217;s most industrialised nation, is grappling with entrenched crime and corruption driven by organised networks.<\/p>\n<p>Many people own licenced fire arms for personal protection, but there are many more illegal guns in circulation.<br \/>\nSome 63 people were killed each day between April and September, according to police data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 6: Gunmen stormed a hostel in South Africa&#8217;s capital Pretoria on Saturday, killing 11 people including a three?year?old child, police said. The attack is the latest in a string of mass shootings that have shocked the crime-weary country of 63 million people. &#8220;I can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37039,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions\/37039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}