A mass shooting tore through an unlicensed bar in South Africa over the weekend … leaving 12 people dead, including three young children, as police search for multiple gunmen who opened fire without warning.

The attack went down early Saturday inside a bar operating out of a hostel west of Pretoria. Cops say 10 victims died on scene, and two more passed away at the hospital.

Among the dead … a 3-year-old boy, a 12-year-old boy, and a 16-year-old girl … all caught in a hail of bullets during what should’ve been an ordinary night for locals. Another 13 people were rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds. Authorities haven’t released their ages or conditions.

Police say they’re looking for three male suspects believed to have stormed into the bar before unloading gunfire at random. “We are told that at least three unknown gunmen entered this hostel where a group of people were drinking and they started randomly shooting,” a police spokesperson told national broadcaster SABC.

“Saturday Night Live” dipped its toe into the Jeffrey Epstein Island scandal that blew up last week, and one of the jokes took a direct swing at the late pedophile … roasting him for having “girlfriends” young enough to still be wearing braces.

As you know, the House Oversight Committee dropped a trove of never-before-seen photos and videos from Epstein’s private island in the Virgin Islands, and the footage is as creepy as you’d expect. A camera operator walks through the property, showing off the mansion, the bedroom, the bathroom … the whole unsettling tour.

But there’s one photo everyone’s talking about … a giant room that looks straight out of a dentist’s office, complete with a dental chair and bizarre old man masks lining the walls.

That image set the stage for “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live. Colin Jost kicked things off by referencing the newly released material, joking, “Honestly, it’s not as nice as I remember.”

Then he pivoted to the now infamous dental chair pic, saying it “seems very weird, but keep in mind a lot of his girlfriends still had braces.”

The live crowd did not love that one … groaning with a loud “Ohhhhhhh.” Jost immediately clapped back, asking, “Oh, so you think the victims should have crooked teeth?”

Have you come hungry for a lil’ Sunday challenge?! Hidden inside this altered photo is a handsome fella from Kentucky … given the clues, can you score the unknown?

He moved to Hollywood in 2002, and his breakout role was playing Jesse Aarons in the fantasy drama “at.”

His movie “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” dropped earlier this weekend!