Police fire rubber bullets on South African rioters
Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 04:10AM
TheSpook
South African police fired rubber bullets
at rioters in a slum settlement near Johannesburg on Wednesday,
the third day of violence prompted by a false rumour of forced
evictions, police and local media said. Thousands of residents have
rioted since Monday in the informal settlement of Diepsloot in
rare scenes reminiscent of South Africa's apartheid past when
members of the black majority clashed sporadically with the white
government's security forces until free elections a decade ago. [more]
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