At least 15 dead in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, South Africa

By Manveena Suri, David McKenzie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN

 

Updated 2:58 PM ET, Sun July 10, 2022

 

A woman weeps at the scene of an overnight bar shooting in Soweto, South Africa, Sunday July 10, 2022.

(CNN)At least 15 people have died after a shooting at a bar in the South African township of Soweto on Sunday, according to the country's public broadcaster SABC.

The incident unfolded shortly after midnight, when a group of men armed with rifles and 9-millimeter pistols entered the bar in the Nomzamo informal settlement near Johannesburg and started shooting "randomly" at the patrons, Gauteng Police said in a statement.

 

Police said 23 people were shot in the establishment -- 12 died at the scene and 11 were rushed to a nearby hospital with injuries. At least two more people were declared dead at the hospital.

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/africa/soweto-south-africa-shooting-intl/index.html

 

 

 Sounds like Soweto is getting as bad as London

38 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

 Sounds like Soweto is getting as bad as London

When was the last time a mass shooting happened in London?

5 hours ago, giddyup said:

When was the last time a mass shooting happened in London?

A contender, but 111 years ago. Winston Churchill was in charge as Home Secretary. (Wikipedia):

 

The siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.

 

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 Sounds like Soweto is getting as bad as London

They were shot, not stabbed. 

South Africa facing more and more serious issues as each day goes by, sad to say.

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 Sounds like Soweto is getting as bad as London

St.Louis Missouri, USA would be a better comparison.

15 hours ago, giddyup said:

When was the last time a mass shooting happened in London?

they use bomb 's, they never learned to shoot on the little

island.