White S. African Set Afire
Blacks dragged a white man from a car in a white area and set him afire today just hours after autopsies revealed 17 of 20 blacks killed by police at an outlawed funeral were shot in the back. The white man was hospitalized in critical condition after the attack.
The attack at a Uitenhage intersection near the black township of Langa--where police shot and killed 20 blacks marching to an outlawed funeral on March 21--marked the first time in 14 months of South African racial violence that blacks have attacked a white person in a white area. Uitenhage is about 600 miles south of Johannesburg.
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