The World - News from July 25, 1988

Four blacks were killed and 12 police officers were injured in South Africa in a shoot-out after a car containing explosives, detonators and automatic rifles was stopped at a police roadblock. The car was stopped on the road between Lichtenburg, 125 miles west of Johannesburg, and Mafikeng. Police said five officers were injured when a grenade thrown by one of the car’s occupants exploded, and two black men and a black women were killed when police then opened fire. A fourth black man was shot and killed by police after he took out a second grenade, and seven officers were wounded when that grenade exploded.