A shooting in a bar in Soweto, near Johannesburg, killed 14 people in the night from Saturday to Sunday, we learned from the South African police.

The police were called in the night, around 12:30 a.m.

"When we arrived there, twelve people were dead, with gunshot wounds," local police chief Nonhlanhla Kubheka told AFP.

Eleven injured were taken to hospital and two of them died there shortly after their arrival, she said early in the morning.

No details were available on the attackers.

“They arrived and shot people who were having fun,” said Nonhlanhla Kubheka, commander of the Orlando police station, the Soweto neighborhood where the tragedy took place.

The police made no arrests and an investigation was opened, the police were still on the spot in the morning, she added.

This bar is located in the East Orlando neighborhood of Soweto, the largest township in Johannesburg, to the southwest of the city.

Four dead in another shooting

In addition, four people died and eight others were injured in a shooting at a bar in the east of the country.

The shooting erupted around 8:30 p.m., local police spokesman Nqobile Gwala confirmed.

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