2 Blacks Killed in Racial Attack in South Africa
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Several whites dressed in camouflage uniforms shot to death two blacks, one of them an 11-year-old boy, and wounded five men Monday in what police said was a racial attack.
The attackers forced two cars off a rural road near Johannesburg and ordered the black passengers to run into a nearby field. The gunmen then opened fire, police Maj. Henriette Bester said.
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