Church massacre
5 killed, hostages freed in South Africa
Five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a longtroubled church near Johannesburg, police in South Africa said Saturday.
A statement said police and military who responded to reports of a shooting at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church headquarters in Zuurbekom found four people “shot and burned to death in a car” and a security guard shot in another car. Six other people were injured.
Police said they rescued men, women and children who had been held hostage and appeared to have been