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South african police and forensic experts at the scene of what many here are calling a massacre. gunmen with automatic weapons charged into a busy bar in this poor neighbourhood last night and opened fire, seemingly at random. two women were injured, the rest of the victims were all young men. was it a robbery gone wrong? for now, the police are simply calling it a cold—blooded attack. there is shock here, but only at the high death toll. i think this really does reflect the dire state in whic...

0ur africa correspondent, andrew harding, reports from soweto. a mass shooting on the outskirts of johannesburg. the dead, all young men, taken away early this morning. watched by grieving families. some had gone into the tavern moments after the attack, hunting for relatives. "bodies were lying on top of each other," says ntombi meji. "we had to climb over the bodies to look for our brothers." the police are still hunting for the attackers, who used automatic weapons. but was this a gang turf w...

But was this a gang turf war, or something else? as to what is the motive, currently, we dont know, but our detectives are hard at work. weve been speaking to a man who was working inside the bar when the gunmen arrived. he said they didnt talk, theyjust opened fire at random, and most importantly, he says they stole nothing. he claims this was not a robbery. the killings have sparked deep anger in this desperately poor neighbourhood. almost two thirds of young south africans are unemployed and ...

Gunmen with automatic weapons charged into a busy bar in this poor neighbourhood last night and opened fire, seemingly at random. two women were injured, the rest of the victims were all young men. was it a robbery gone wrong? for now, the police are simply calling it a cold—blooded attack. there is shock here, but only at the high death toll. i think this really does reflect the dire state in which our countrys failures is at. we dont have visible policing in this area and there is no electri...

A mass shooting on the outskirts ofjohannesburg. the dead, all young men, taken away early this morning, watched by grieving families. some had gone into the tavern moments after the attack, hunting for relatives. "bodies were lying on top of each other," says ntombi meji. "we had to climb over the bodies to look for our brothers." the police are still hunting for the attackers, who used automatic weapons. but was this a gang turf war, or something else? as to what is the motive, currently, we d...

Holistic view of everything that took place, and where the response fell short. >> andrew, while we have you, i want to pivot to the news this week that you were involved in, apparently the irs asking a watchdog to look into a choice to conduct a really uncommon, rare tax audits of yourself, and former fbi director, james call me during the years when donald trump was president, you have called this a good first step, what are you hoping comes of this investigation? >> boris, i mean the facts th...

Whether trump was using the agency during his time in office to get his longtime enemies. >> the irs launched a watchdog investigation after two of former president trumps favorite punching bags found themselves under incredibly rare iris audit. according to the new york times, both former fbi director james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe received letters from the tax agency informing them quote that they were selected at random. -- the odds of being chosen for such an intense of audit? roug...

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For one of these random audits is about one in 30,000 and a little bit, according to your article. the odds that both of these men, who have the same position, back to back, in the same administration, both seen as political enemies of the president in charge, and the irs headed by a mandate that president appointed. it just makes it seem less than random. >> we actually dont in the story, whats the odds are. we dont know how the irs actually randomly selects these people. whether it is weighted...