{"id":26028,"date":"2025-12-22T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26028"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:47:00","slug":"nine-people-dead-after-mass-shooting-at-pub-near-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26028","title":{"rendered":"Nine people dead after mass shooting at pub near Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nine people have been killed and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a pub near Johannesburg in South Africa.The incident occurred just before 1am local time outside the Kwanoxolo bar in Bekkersdal, a township 28 miles outside the country&#8217;s largest city.t is the second mass shooting to happen in South Africa in three weeks.About 12 unknown suspects in a white minibus and a silver car opened fire at pub patrons at the bar, in the Tambo section of Bekkersdal, and continued to shoot randomly as they fled the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Some victims were randomly shot in the streets by unknown gunmen,&#8217; the police said of the incident that left nine people dead and 10 in hospital.Provincial police commissioner Major General Fred Kekana told SABC television that one of the deceased was a driver from an online car-hailing service who had been outside the pub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people have been killed and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a pub near Johannesburg in South Africa.The incident occurred just&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":707,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26030,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26028\/revisions\/26030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}