WedelaGunmen killed 27 people in two townships within hours.
It doubles pressure on South Africa’s new military deployment against organised gang crime.
Eight gunmen with AK-47 rifles opened fire, then searched patrons and took phones before fleeing, in a country logging nearly 60 homicides daily, police said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa calls organised gang crime the country’s biggest threat, with no arrests reported yet.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide
- Dawn
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames incidents as surge of mass shootings — three major incidents in days revealing endemic township violence pattern
- cnbctv18.com
Sources: Dawn, Al Jazeera Online, cnbctv18.com