Multiple shooters kill 12 people and wound 9 in a late-night attack in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 10 suspects got out of a minibus and moved through a poor neighborhood in South Africa’s biggest city while shooting at residents in a late-night attack that killed at least 12 people and wounded nine others, police said Wednesday.The mass shooting shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday in an informal settlement in the Cleveland suburb of Johannesburg had the hallmarks of organized crime gangs vying for control of illegal mining or other activities, though police said the motive was still under investigation.Police said the shooters were dropped off at the settlement in a minibus “and moved through the area, opening fire on residents and community members at multiple locations before fleeing the scene in the same vehicle.”The victims were nine men and three women, according to police. Eleven died at the scene and another victim died in the hospital.

A manhunt was launched for the suspects and no arrests had been made, police said.Informal settlements in South Africa are unplanned residential areas that are common in and around big cities where people looking for housing live in shacks or other makeshift structures.

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