JOHANNESBURG: Gunmen stormed a church in the South African capital, killing five people and wounding several others, police said, adding that gunmen had taken hundreds of people hostage inside the church.
According to international media reports, five people have been killed so far in the attack and massacre on a church in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, while the police have expressed fears of more deaths. Police have so far detained more than a dozen people on murder charges.
According to the report, armed men armed with modern weapons attacked a church called Pentecost Holiness in Johor Bahn area of Zurbecken and started firing indiscriminately.
Police and National Defense Force troops arrived at the scene shortly after the incident, after which the injured and dead were taken to hospital by ambulance.
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Authorities say the assailants shot four people in the car and then set it on fire. The four bodies have been taken into custody and shifted to the hospital.
According to a police spokesman, the assailants also killed a security guard guarding the church in his car and then set the body on fire.
Police and the South African army have cordoned off the church and launched an operation, during which more than 30 sophisticated weapons were recovered and more than a dozen suspects were detained.
According to police officials, the detainees were involved in hostage-taking and massacres
