Soldiers fire on blacks
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
- Soldiers fired on thousands of angry
blacks Tuesday and rival gangs fought
with axes, knives and spears. At least
40 people were killed in the township
violence.
President F.W. de Klerk and Afri
can National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela visited black townships near
Johannesburg to call for a halt in
fighting that has killed more than 550
people since Aug. 12.
The government has imposed
emergency restrictions and sent elite
army units to the townships, but fight
ing between Zulu followers of the
conservative Inkatha movement and
other blacks loyal to the ANC raged
for a fourth week.
In Sebokeng, a pre-dawn clash killed
four people at a migrant workers’
hostel, police said. The victims were
believed to be township residents
abducted by hostel dwellers.
About 5,000 township residents
angered by the killings gathered at
the hostel, police said.
When the mob refused to disperse,
army troops were called in and a
“shooting incident occurred,” said
police Col. Frans Malherbe. “The
bodies of 11 persons were found after
the mob dispersed.”
South African newspaper photog
rapher N. Khumalo told the South
African Press Association that “people
came toward (the soldiers) waving
their hands, saying ‘peace, we are not
fighting.’ Some of them even sat
down.”
The troops ‘‘took up position,
cocked their guns --1 thought maybe
they wanted to scare the people,”
Khumalo was quoted as saying. ‘ ‘ All
of a sudden there was shooting. Many
of the people ran. Some of the people
fell.”
The shooting marked the first time
soldiers have been involved in a clash
that has resulted in a loss of lives
since they were deployed last month
in the townships.
In March, police opened fire on
bjack demonstrators in Sebokeng,
killing at least five and wounding
more than 150. A judicial inquiry
criticized police for the killings, say
ing gunfire was unjustified.
Malherbe said both police and
military were investigating Tuesday’s
shooting.
A later police report Tuesday put
the Sebokeng death toll at 36, with
the other killings occurring in spo
radic clashes near the hostel and adja
cent areas. Police said more than 150
people were arrested.
Police also reported three deaths
in Vosloorus and one in Katlehong in
overnight street clashes. Both town- 1
ships are southeast of Johannesburg.
Rival factions continued to skir
mish Tuesday in Vosloorus with axes,
spears and other crude weapons. Po
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Typhoon kills 88 in China
BEIJING - At least 88 people have
died in two coastal provinces that
were battered by Typhoon Abe, an
official report said Tuesday.
Abe, which landed Friday in south
Zhejiang province, rampaged through
Shanghai, China’s most populous city,
then headed back out to sea Monday
afternoon, the China Daily reported.
The death toll in Zhejiang now
stands at 65, with 839 injured, 660,000
stranded by floods and 40,000 left
homeless, the report said.
Half the province’s land area and
one-fourth of its population - about
10 million people — were affected by
Typhoon Abe. It was reported to be
the worst typhoon to hit the province
in 34 years.
In neighboring Jiangsu province,
23 people died and hundreds were
injured, mostly by collapsing build
ings, the paper said.
lice fired tear gas and shotguns to
keep the groups apart.
Mandela visited Scbokeng on
ruesday afternoon and said he was
“outraged” after viewing bodies at a
mortuary.
The ANC deputy president repeated
lis accusation that police fueled the
violence by siding with Inkatha fight
ers. But he also said police arrested
more than 100 Inkatha supporters,
including youth leader Themba Khoza.
On Monday, Mandela called for
in independent investigation of po
lice actions in the townships similar
to the one that followed the Scbokeng
shootings in March.
De Klerk has ordered Law and
Drdcr Minister Adriaan Vlok to in
vestigate the charges of police bias.
He and other officials have said some
individuals may have acted improp
erly.
De Klerk made his first visit as
president to the Soweto township
southwest of Johannesburg, where
more than 100 people were killed in
factional fighting this month.
Youths mobbed the president and
shouted “Viva, de Klerk!” At one
stop, he visited a migrant worker hostel
where recent battles have occurred.
De Klerk later told a news confer
ence conditions in the hostels were
“unacceptable” and that the govern
ment would spend millions of dollars
for housing and education in the
ownships.
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