{"id":13210,"date":"2025-10-22T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/two-teenagers-killed-five-wounded-in-shooting-incident-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:15","slug":"two-teenagers-killed-five-wounded-in-shooting-incident-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/two-teenagers-killed-five-wounded-in-shooting-incident-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers killed, five wounded in shooting incident in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two teenagers were killed and five wounded in a shooting incident in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA) on Tuesday, police said, adding that they suspected the incident was gang-related.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The teenagers were approached by four suspects on foot, three carrying firearms. The suspects opened fire at the victims without saying anything and then fled the scene,&#8221; a police Spokesperson said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The victims are aged between 13 and 19 years, and those that were wounded are receiving medical attention in hospital.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police said an anti-gang unit was on the scene along with forensic services.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA has one of the highest murder rates in the world, averaging about 60 a day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13211,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13210","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The victims are aged between 13 and 19 years, and those that were wounded are receiving medical attention in hospital.||The victims are aged between 13 and 19 years, and those that were wounded are receiving medical attention in hospital.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The victims are aged between 13 and 19 years, and those that were wounded are receiving medical attention in hospital.||The victims are aged between 13 and 19 years, and those that were wounded are receiving medical attention in hospital.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18437,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13210\/revisions\/18437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}