White Woman Held in S. Africa Police Station Bombings

A white woman was arrested in connection with bomb attacks on police stations, police said Sunday.

Police also reported that four blacks died in violence that broke a relative calm after the lifting of South Africa’s state of emergency. Two of the blacks died overnight after patrols fired on crowds throwing rocks and firebombs. Two other blacks were killed in apparent vengeance attacks by fellow blacks.

Police said the white woman, whose name was not released, was held in connection with bombs planted in the toilets of two Johannesburg police stations.

One bomb, a limpet mine, blew up Tuesday at the main Johannesburg station, slightly injuring two police officers and two civilians, police said. A second mine was found in a station in a residential neighborhood and detonated safely.

Police spokesman Capt. Henry Beck said the woman also was being questioned regarding a limpet mine blast last year at a hotel in the south coast city of East London.

Beck would give no details of the arrest or say if she was formally charged. He said arresting officers found three limpet mines.