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4 KZN women shot dead

Man killed for parking spot

Off-duty metro cop kills robber







Johannesburg - A 29-year-old woman was shot dead during a robbery at Zamimpilo informal settlement near Longdale, Johannesburg on Thursday morning, police said.

It was alleged that the woman and her 32-year old boyfriend were on their way to Croesus railway station when two armed men approached them, Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said.

He said the robbers took the woman's handbag and shot her in the head.

"The woman died at the scene because of a gunshot wound she sustained to the head," he said.

The boyfriend managed to run away from the robbers.

No arrests had been made yet. Police were investigating a murder case, Tsunke said.

He urged anyone with information to contact Crime Stop on 08600-010111.

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TRAIN COMMUTER KILLED IN JHB ON THURSDAY

JHB 22 JULY 1993
A train commuter was killed and two others injured in fighting
on a packed commuter train to Johannesburg on Thursday morning.

Witwatersrand police spokesman Maj Eugene Opperman confirmed
fighting broke out on the train and he quoted eye witnesses as
saying the clash was between Inkatha Freedom Party and African
National Congress supporters.

The fight apparently started when the early-morning train stopped
at Croesus railway station at Industria.

IFP spokesman Humphrey Ndlovu said the man killed in the clash
was a Mr Linda from Nancefield.

Maj Opperman said the man was apparently knifed to death.

Shortly before the fighting broke out the train was searched by
police at New Canada station, the station before Croesus, Maj
Opperman said.

THE DEATH TOLL FOR WEEKENDING ON TUESDAY IS 57 KILLED


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Train Violence Resurges

JOHANNESBURG Nov 4 Sapa

With security forces preparing to move into Natal to quell the
politically-motivated violence in the troubled province, the
worst bloodshed on Tuesday occurred at Witwatersrand train
stations.

According to the official SAP unrest report, seven people died
in attacks on train commuters on Tuesday. The violence continued
on Wednesday morning with a further 11 people being injured in
train attacks.

In killings unconnected with bloodshed on trains, the body of a
man was found in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle on Tuesday, and
on Wednesday morning, a man was shot and killed in a fracas with
two policemen near Nyanga, Cape Town.

SABC radio news reported that when two police constables tried
to arrest a man allegedly involved in an assault in a squatter
camp near Nyanga, bystanders began stoning them.

A Mr T M Mthiya grabbed a shotgun from one of the constables and
when he cocked the weapon, he was shot dead by the second
policeman.

On Tuesday at 6.15am the body of a man with several stab wounds
was found next to the railway line near the Croesus Station.

Witnesses said the man had been attacked on the train before
being thrown from the railway coach.

At 6.30am the body of man with a stab wound in the chest was

found near the Braamfontein Station in western Johannesburg.

Police suspected he had also been attacked before being thrown
off a train.

On the East Rand five people were shot dead and two injured when
gunmen inside a train opened fire with Makarov pistols at
commuters on the platforms at the Pilot, Lindela and Katlehong
stations.

The injured were admitted to the Natalspruit Hospital.

The motive for the attacks was not known and no arrests were
made.

In other incidents on Tuesday, police found the body of a man
with bullet wounds in Sebokeng near Vereeniging, police found the
body of a man with bullet wounds.

On the eve of Operation Peace -- as the joint SA Police and
Defence Force crackdown on Natal violence is called -- two people
were seriously wounded when gunmen with AK47 rifles fired on a
car in Enambewini near Wartburg outside Pietermaritzburg.

In another boost to peace, a delegation of African National
Congress leaders, including deputy president Walter Sisulu and
secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, were scheduled to meet members
of the organisation's three Natal regions on Wednesday to discuss
to increasing violence in the area.

More more than 70 people have died in violence in Natal during
the past two weeks.

Hundreds of policemen and soldiers are starting to arrive in
Natal following State President F W de Klerk's undertaking last
week to increase security forces in the province to help curb the
violence.

Natal's September Toll The Second Highest This Year

By Craig Doonan

DURBAN Nov 4 1992 Sapa





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