{"id":1059,"date":"2025-12-06T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:08:07","slug":"gunmen-kill-at-least-11-people-including-three-year-old-in-south-african-hostel-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill at least 11 people including three-year-old in South African hostel | South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gunmen have stormed into a hostel in South Africa\u2019s capital and killed at least 11 people, including a three-year-old child, and injured more than a dozen others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot,\u201d police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said of the early morning attack in Pretoria. She said 14 people had been hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cTen died on this particular scene, and one died in hospital,\u201d added Mathe. The victims also included a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">South African police have been grappling with violence linked to illegal bars, known as shebeens, which often sell homebrewed drinks that are substandard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhat I can tell you is that these illegal shebeens are really giving us a problem as the police,\u201d Mathe told the 24-hour eNCA news broadcaster. \u201cBecause a lot of murders are being reported at these illegal establishments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Forensic and ballistic experts were at the scene, alongside investigators. \u201cSo we are on a manhunt. For now, we are looking for three suspects,\u201d Mathe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>More details soon \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Gunmen #kill #people #including #threeyearold #South #African #hostel #South #Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen have stormed into a hos&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}