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Written by BEE NEWS on July 19, 2022

South Africa: Four dead in shooting near Johannesburg

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This attack comes precisely a week after shootings in two bars in South Africa, which left twenty dead, including sixteen in a tavern in Soweto, still near the metropolis.

A group of men were sitting around a fire and playing dice in a suburb of Johannesburg on Saturday night when assailants arrived and opened fire, killing four of them, the police reported on Sunday. the police.

This attack comes precisely a week after shootings in two bars in South Africa, which left twenty people dead, including sixteen in a tavern in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and where the attackers seem to have fired at random on the customers.

In Lenasia, a suburb south of the South African economic capital, assailants fired on these men playing on a street corner on Saturday evening. They killed four of them and injured two others, police spokeswoman Masondo Mavela confirmed to AFP. “They were sitting, they were attacked for no apparent reason”, commented on the spot Elias Mavela, the regional police chief, describing “another appalling crime scene”.

An investigation has been opened. Shootings are common in South Africa, one of the most violent countries in the world, fueled by gang violence and alcohol.

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