Nine dead after gunmen in minibus carry out mass shooting at pub

Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting at a pub near Johannesburg in South Africa.

Gunmen reportedly pulled up outside the Kwanoxolo bar in Bekkersdal, a township 28 miles outside the country’s largest city, just before 1am local time.

Authorities said around a dozen were riding in a white minibus and silver sedan when they opened fire at the patrons.

At least 10 other people were wounded in the attack, South Africa’s second mass shooting in three weeks.

A police spokesperson said: ‘Some victims were randomly shot in the streets by unknown gunmen.’

Fred Kekana, the provincial police commissioner, told a local news station that one of the dead was a driver from a car-hailing app who was parked outside the pub.

Others were killed as they tried to flee the scene.

A manhunt is now underway for suspects, led by Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations.

On December 6, three children were among at least 25 people who were killed at another mass shooting in the administrative capital Pretoria.

The children shot dead at the unlicensed bar were aged three, 12 and 16.

Bars have been the location for several other shooting incidents in South Africa over the past four years, with another in Soweto in 2022 leaving 16 dead.

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