8 Monday, August 23, 1993 NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Shots kill 10 in South Africa Burial workers slayed east of Johannesburg The Associated Press - GERMISTON, South Africa — A Black man with an AK-47 assault rifle fired fire yesterday on a group of Blacks planning the burial of a man killed last month, killing 10 people and wounding 21. The shooting occurred near the site of last month's gruesome political massacre, but police and witnesses said the motive was unclear. Most violence between Blacks has been linked to the rivalry between Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and the Zulu-dominated Inkatha. The fighting is blamed for the deaths of 10,000 Blacks in the past three years. Hours after the killings, bloody bodies lay beside toppled plastic chairs outside the workers hostel at the huge Scaw Metals factory complex in Germiston, a mostly white suburb 10 miles east of Johannesburg. The victims were from the Tsomo Burial Society, which represents people from the Tsomo district of the Transkei Black homeland. The society arranges for bringing back and burying the bodies of people who have died in other areas. Welcome Mtiwaz, a member of the society, said the society was making arrangements for a Tsomo man killed July 31 in a nearby township. While the gathering was taking place, three men in long coats walked up the street. One of the men pulled out an AK-47 assault rifle and started firing, said Mtwazi, who was sitting a few yards from where most of the victims were found. Nine bodies were at the meeting site and a 10th was inside the hostel, sad Police Capt. Wikus Weber. A trail of blood suggested the victim went into the hostel after being shot. "We just heard a gun — bang, bang, bang," said Ephrain Masuku, who was visiting his father in an adjacent reception hall. "We all tried to get underneath the table." Weber said nine men and one woman died, and 21 people were wounded. All the victims were Black. when shooting broke out as an Inkatha funeral procession passed an ANC-controlled squatter area in the Tokoza township near Germiston, Weber said. Also yesterday, three people died The burial society, which often held meetings at the factory, comprises members of the Xhosa tribe from Transkei, one of 10 tribal homelands set up under apartheid and the birthplace of Mandela. Xhosas often are associated with the ANC, but Mtwazi said the burial society was nonpolitical. The shooting was the latest in a string of mass killings in the Johannesburg area. Most have occurred in Black townships. The factory is in an industrial area of Germiston, a white suburb. But like most large factories in South Africa, its labor force is mainly Black. On July 19, a field near the factory was the scene of a shooting linked to political rivalries. Gummen with AK-47s pulled over a van and accused seven of the 13 occupants of being inkatha supporters. The seven were marched into the field and shot in the head. Blast in Somalia injures U.S. soldiers MOGADISHIU. Somalia — Six American soldiers preparing to leave Somalia were slightly wounded yesterday when their reinforced truck was destroyed by an explosion triggered by militamen. The Associated Press Five small explosions from grenades or small mortars burst in front of the lead truck in the 22-vehicle convoy, and some of the trucks came under small-arms fire, said Cant. Tim McDavitt, a U.N. military spokesperson. Military officials blamed fugitive warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid for the attack - the third explosion targeting U.S. forces this month. "We hold Aidid responsible for all these attacks," said Maj. David Stockwell, the chief U.N. military spokesperson. "We have no reason to believe it was anyone else." McDavitt said that the wounded Americans were picked up by soldiers in trucks behind them and that the convoy sped to the port, with Gls returning fire as they left the scene of the explosion. There were no reports of Somali casualties. It was the third mine explosion aimed at U.S. forces since a blast ripped apart a Hunvee utility vehicle Aug. 8, killing four American peacekeepers. More than 1,000 supporters of fugitive warlord Mohamed Farah Aidil staged a peaceful anti-U.S. demonstration yesterday a few miles away. The demonstrations occur almost weekly. The convoy was approaching the port on one of Mogadishu's most heavily traveled streets when the explosion ripped the undercarriage of a 2.5-ton truck. Like most U.S. trucks in Mogadishu it had been reinforced with steel plating and was carrying sandbags in its bed as protection against mines. against the traps. The explosion, thought to have been triggered by remote, left a 3-foot-deep crater in the asphalt. The truck burned. The six Americans in the vehicle suffered minor cuts and bruises, McDavitt said. They were treated at a U.S. Army field hospital and released. Identities were not disclosed. Stockwell said all six were members of the U.S. Logistical Support Command, which provides services for most of the other 27 nations in the U.N. military force in Somalia. They were due to be rotated back to the United States in a few days and were taking their trucks and other vehicles to the port for shipment home, he said. four American soldiers, including three women, survived a mine explosion and fought their way to safety under small-arms fire from Somali militiamen Thursday. Aidid is wanted by the United Nations in a series of ambushes June 5 that killed 24 Pakistani peacekeepers and for other attacks on U.N. forces. A $25,000 reward has been posted for information leading to his arrest. 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