S. African Police Kill Girl, 10, Two Others Near Cape Town
Police today shot and killed three people--including a 10-year-old girl--near riot-torn Cape Town.
More than 50 people have been killed in the Cape Town area since rioting broke out Aug. 28. The unrest was triggered by a government ban on a planned protest march to the prison where African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela is jailed.
The worst of today’s violence was centered in the Cape Town area, where authorities Sept. 6 closed 450 schools because of rioting and class boycotts.
A police spokesman said a 10-year-old girl was killed and a 12-year-old boy wounded when officers fired shotguns at a group of “coloreds”--people of mixed race--who were throwing stones in the Elsies River suburb near Cape Town.
In Valhalla Tark, another colored suburb, police killed a 21-year-old man and wounded a 28-year-old woman in a similar clash.
The third victim, a black man, was killed when officers fired on a crowd throwing stones outside a liquor store in the Manenberg colored township, near Uitenhage.
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