The World - News from April 20, 1986

Seven people, including two children, died as a result of violence in South Africa, authorities said. A black council member’s baby was burned to death when arsonists set fire to his house in Middelburg, and the father killed two of the attackers. Another black man, also believed to be a local council member, was found dead nearby, and at Randfontein, near Johannesburg, a black man burned to death when rioters set fire to his car. In Transkei, a black boy, 12, and a white man died of injuries suffered in the bombing of a resort hotel.