S. Africa Police Fire on Students
From Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
Police opened fire with shotguns on several hundred students in South Africa’s largest black township today, killing one person and wounding eight, the government said. The dead man was an adult, but it was not clear whether the wounded were students.
Earlier the Bureau of Information said a 5-year-old girl in Natal province was killed Sunday night when a hand grenade was thrown through her bedroom window.
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