{"id":55657,"date":"2026-09-27T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55657"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:51:03","slug":"gunmen-kill-17-in-south-africa-bar-shooting-15-wounded-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/gunmen-kill-17-in-south-africa-bar-shooting-15-wounded-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 17 in South Africa bar shooting, 15 wounded: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Eight gunmen armed with assault rifles killed 17 people and wounded 15 others at a bar west of Johannesburg, police said on Sunday, in the latest mass shooting in the crime-weary country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They allegedly searched some patrons and took their cellphones before fleeing the scene in two unidentified motor vehicles,&#8221; police said, adding that the incident occurred at around 1930 GMT on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims included 13 males and four females, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The motive of the shooting was still unknown, police said, adding that the suspects torched two vehicles before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have mobilised a team of detectives and other specialised units to trace and apprehend the suspects,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate shooting at an entertainment venue in a township outside Cape Town early on Sunday, gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 11 more.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is awash with legal and illegal firearms, and shootings are common, often fuelled by gang rivalry and competition between informal businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The country of around 62 million people has one of the world&#8217;s highest murder rates, with about 60 people killed each day.<\/p>\n<p>In March, soldiers moved into violence hotspots in Johannesburg to support police efforts to tackle rampant crime, described by President Cyril Ramaphosa as one of the biggest threats facing the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight gunmen armed with assault rifles killed 17 people and wounded 15 others at a bar west of Johannesburg, police said on Sunday, in the latest mass shooting in the crime-weary country. &#8220;They allegedly searched some patrons and took their cellphones before fleeing the scene in two unidentified motor vehicles,&#8221; police said, adding that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55657","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\/55657"}],"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=55657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55659,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55657\/revisions\/55659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}