Two mass shootings kill 27 in one night in South Africa, near Johannesburg and Cape Town
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PakistanIslamabad takes away from these South African dispatches a familiar security lesson: a proliferation of illegal weapons that neither police crackdowns nor the November polls seem able to stem.
What each one tells
opposition
SwedenStockholm views these two South African shootings in light of a staggering statistic: around 60 deaths per day in the country, according to AFP.
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Omission of local leads
the motive for the two shootings is presented as unknown, with no mention of the distinct leads put forward elsewhere by the police (rivalry between illegal miners in Wedela, commercial competition in Lwandle).
What the account puts first
SwedenStatistical
the toll is immediately included in the AFP figure of 60 daily deaths rather than in the authorities' response.
Assembly of distinct facts
the news feed groups the double shooting with an unrelated serial killer case in Ekurhuleni.
- Pakistan
Reliance on a single expert
the causal analysis of the phenomenon is based on the statements of a single crime expert, quoted by the agency, with no opposing view or separate official source.
What it leans on
Pakistan onlySwedenthis perspective does not carry this information
and the figures
17 killed
Assessment of the Wedela shooting incident
deaths
same figure17 dead
10 killed
Assessment of the Lwandle shooting
deaths
same figure10 dead
this press does not report this figure
Daily homicide rate in South Africa
homicides/day
only one reports itaround 60 people killed every day