{"id":53518,"date":"2025-12-21T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53518"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:57:32","slug":"gunmen-kill-nine-in-south-africa-tavern-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53518","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill nine in South Africa tavern attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South African police say a manhunt is under way after a shooting at a tavern left nine people dead and another 10 injured in a township near Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They say about 12 unidentified gunmen arrived in two cars in Bekkersdal, &#8220;opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shooting happened at about 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT Saturday). The police added that the tavern was licensed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, at 45 people per 100,000 according to 2023-24 figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: South African police say a manhunt is under way after a shooting at a tavern left nine people dead and another 10 injured in a township near Johannesburg. They say about 12 unidentified gunmen arrived in two cars in Bekkersdal, &#8220;opened fire at tavern patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene&#8221;. The shooting happened at about 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT Saturday). The police added that the tavern was licensed. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, at 45 people per 100,000 according to 2023-24 figures from the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53520,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518\/revisions\/53520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}