The World - News from Oct. 26, 1987

Three black men were stabbed to death in separate incidents and one was seriously injured in a gasoline-bomb attack in Natal province, South African police reported. The deaths in the black townships around Pietermaritzburg brought to at least 50 the number of people killed in five weeks of feuding among anti-apartheid organizations and in a wave of looting, murder and rape that has accompanied the political unrest. Local aid agencies and journalists say the death toll could be twice as high as the official count. A national state of emergency restricts reporting on many types of unrest.