Three dead in S Africa restaurant shooting

JOHANNESBURG: Three people were shot dead in an altercation over firearms at an upmarket restaurant in South Africa´s economic hub Johannesburg, police said on Friday.

It is the latest in a string of shootouts that reinforces the country´s bleak status as a murder capital. Thursday night´s incident was sparked when the restaurant in Sandton -- Africa´s richest square mile -- told a businessman they did not allow guns on its premises. “A man with a firearm wanted to enter the restaurant which a has a no firearm policy,” police said in a statement.