Scores Trampled Protesting Cricket Tour of S. Africa
Scores of people protesting an English cricket team’s tour of South Africa were injured Monday when police fired tear gas into a church hall where the demonstrators were holding a rally.
The victims were caught in the stampede to escape the hall after tear gas was fired into the gathering of several hundred people, said Paul Ntuli, an anti-tour committee leader. About 80 demonstrators were arrested.
It was the latest in a series of incidents over the controversial seven-week tour by the English cricket team, which has defied the anti-apartheid sports boycott observed by Britain and most of the world.
Earlier, black hotel staff members refused again to serve the rebel English cricketers in Bloemfontein, which is in the Orange Free State.
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