World IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : 18 Stabbed, Beaten in Attack on Train
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A gang apparently linked to the Inkatha Freedom Party stabbed and beat commuters on a Soweto-bound train after complaining that some of the passengers were singing songs of the African National Congress, victims said. The attack Thursday night left 18 people wounded. It came just hours after delegations of the ANC and Inkatha, the two main black opposition groups, agreed to work together to stop an outburst of violence that has left scores dead in three Johannesburg-area black townships.
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