soweto sounds like soetoro,
He sprayed them with bullets.[ phrase from article]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10999377/At-14-dead-mass-shooting-bar-South-Africa-gunmen-shot-randomly.html
'People died screaming before my eyes - there were bodies everywhere': Eyewitness describes moment three gunmen armed with rifles and pistols kill 15 in 'brutal and heartless' attack at South African bar
At least 15 people were shot dead in a mass murder in a bar in South Africa
The gunmen shot 'randomly' into a bar in Soweto near Johannesburg last night
A witness described people screaming and hiding under tables amid gunfire
'I hid under a table. Four dead people lay near me and their blood spilt on me'
At least 15 people were killed in a bar in South Africa last night after gunmen 'randomly' opened fire at customers - using automatic rifles and powerful handguns.
The shocking mass murder in the tavern in Soweto, Johannesburg, followed another bar shooting just hours earlier in Pietermaritzburg, which claimed the lives of four people .
The brutal attack saw the killers 'repeatedly' fire at people as they lay dead on the floor, according to one eyewitness.
Many bar patrons hid under tables and were forced to scramble over dead bodies in order to escape.
The witness, who did not want to be named, told News 24: 'I was seated at the corner with other people drinking. We had fun until around 10pm, when our fun was abruptly stopped. I saw a man carrying an AK-47 (assault rifle) opening the glass sliding door.
'He didn't say anything and started opening fire. My friend and others at the pool table scattered for cover. He sprayed them with bullets.
'I saw them falling to the ground. It was pandemonium. I hid under a table. Four dead people were lying near me. Their blood spilt on me. After the man with an assault rifle was done. Two others carrying 9mm pistols joined and repeatedly fired at people on the floor.'
'People died in front of me. Some were screaming in pain. Alcohol was scattered. After killing people, including my friend, the gunmen slowly walked away.'
Terrifyingly, after the man stepped out from under a table, he came face to face with one of the shooters who, he said, simply walked away.
Thobani Mhlabiso, 26, a bar waiter who hid behind the fridge to survive the onslaught, told reporters that some customers were shot in the head.
'I had to jump over those bodies. There was blood everywhere.'
'I'm so heartbroken,' said Sololo Mjoli, a 59-year-old gardener, whose two sons, Sthembiso, 34, Luyanda, 18, were both killed in the shootings.
Sthemibiso's girlfriend had arrived on the scene shortly after the attack to find him still breathing, Mjoli said, but he sadly later died in hospital.
At least ten others were injured in the shooting, three of whom are being treated with life-threatening injuries in hospital.
The unknown gunmen fled the scene in a white Toyota Quantum minibus and are now on the run, said a police source.
The incident happened around 12:30am this morning according to Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela.
A press statement released by his office said the gunmen had been armed with rifles and 9mm pistols when they entered the bar.