Mass shooting at South African house party kills 11

In South Africa, a knock at the door became the prelude to mass death — eleven lives extinguished at a house party when gunmen opened fire on a gathering of ordinary people. The attack, still under investigation, adds another wound to a nation long burdened by endemic gun violence and the fragility of civilian safety. What begins as a social evening, a moment of human connection, can end in an instant when violence finds its way to the threshold.