A group of men were sitting around a fire and playing dice in a suburb of Johannesburg on Saturday night when assailants arrived and opened fire, killing four of them, the police reported on Sunday. the police.
This attack comes precisely a week after shootings in two bars in South Africa, which left twenty people dead, including sixteen in a tavern in Soweto, near Johannbesurg, and where the attackers seem to have fired at random on the customers.
“They were attacked for no apparent reason”
In Lenasia, a suburb located south of the South African economic capital, assailants fired Saturday evening on these men playing at the corner of a street.
They killed four of them and injured two others, police spokeswoman Masondo Mavela confirmed to AFP.
"They were sitting, they were attacked for no apparent reason", commented on the spot Elias Mawela, the regional police chief, describing "another appalling crime scene".
An investigation has been opened.
Shootings are common in South Africa, one of the most violent countries in the world, fueled by gang violence and alcohol.
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