NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, September 4, 1984
Page 9
Bomb blast kills three in train station
By United Press International
MONTEAL — A bomb explosion ripped through the city's main train station packed with Labor Day holiday travelers yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring 29 others. Police said the blast may have been a warning against a visit next week by Pone John Paul II.
Police said the 8:23 a.m. blast originated in a bank of baggage lockers that blew 120 feet across Montreal's Central Station crowded with 250 Labor Day travelers, scattering 'burning luggage and debris and shattering windows of a hotel built over the terminal.
Montreal police said a suspect was in custody but would not identify him or disclose grounds for his arrest.
THE BLAST CAME on the eve of national elections and followed the discovery last Friday of a note that apparently was intended as a threat against Pope John Paul II, who is expected to arrive in Montreal next Sunday.
The rambling, barely coherent hand-printed letter was found by a ticket agent in the station and turned over to police. It said in part:
"9:30 a.m. September 3, 1984. End of the unholy Vatican. Kill popes! Fry bloody papacy! First 18 popes died violently."
Police said they considered the letter evidence in the case. Police spokesman Pierre Vezina said "the letter revealed a lot of targets and we investigated right away." He would not disclose the other alleged targets.
John Paul is scheduled to arrive Sunday in Quebec City to begin an 11-day visit to Canada. He is scheduled to arrive by train next Monday at Montreal's Windsor Station, about a block from Central Station.
THE POPE IS to stay at the Roman Catholic archdiocese located in the block between the two stations.
Montreal Police L1. Paul-Emile Henry said no one claimed responsibility for the blast.
"People were screaming and yelling and running, and police ordered everyone to get out—and we got out," said Harry Smith, a teacher from New Zealand, who was standing about 90 feet from the explosion.
"I heard the explosion and it was terrific. I saw balls of fire and suddenly I saw a cloud around the surroundings where the bomb exploded," said another witness, Marcel Brais.
spokesmen for Montreal Police and the Urgence Sante ambulance service said three people were dead, identified the scene and taken to the morgue.
AMBULANCE SERVICE SUPERVISOR Anthony Dion Monte said 29 injured victims were taken to six hospitals. Most of the victims suffered burns, cuts and shock and one was unconscious, he said. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition.
The station, crowded with Labor Day travelers, was evacuated about an hour after the explosion, but police said an anonymous caller told police at 11:40 a.m. that a second bomb had been planted.
"There is no second bomb yet," Montreal police spokesman Real Cantin said two hours later. "We'll have to wait, so far we haven't found anything."
Cantin said the bomb was planted in a locker close to a men's room, near an escalator.
United Press International
Montreal — Rescue workers carry out the body of one of the victims of a locker bomb that ripped through the Central Station train depot here yesterday. Three people are confirmed dead with up to 25 more injured in the blast that police think was a warning against an upcoming visit by the Pope.
South Africa rioters kill 14, injure more
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rioters rampaged through six black townships yesterday, burning houses, cars and churches as a new constitution that bars bars from leaving least 14 people were killed, including a deputy mayor who was hacked to death and set ablaze.
Rioting continued into the evening, with police guarding ambulances as they ventured into the city south and east of Johannesburg.
Hospital sources at Sebokeng township near Sharpeville, where the heaviest ripped erupted, said 200 people had come for treatment and of those, 135 were admitted, six of them in critical condition.
Police spokesman Lt. Henry Beck said his office knew of 37 injured, but said the toll could be "much higher."
THE RIOTERS BURNED houses, cars and churches, stoned vehicles and buildings and looted shops in the townships of Sharpeville, Boibateng, Sebokeng, E伏aton, Bobhelong and Temisia.
Esau Mahlatis, the chairman of the Lekoa Town Council near Sharpeville, also was killed, Beck said.
Bek said one victim included Sam Dlamini, deputy mayor of Sharpeville, who was hacked to death and his body set afire on the steps of his house. Witnesses said he had shot at two black youths.
Police confirmed that two people
ued when their autos were set on fire. Previously, authorities said three people died in car bombing.
South African television quoted police as saying they "were on some occasions forced to use live cameras" and crowds of as many as 4,000 people.
'TEN OF THEM (the rioters) were killed in police countermeasures and four were killed by the rioters themselves.' Beck said.
The violence was South Africa's worst this year.
teidents of the townships said the riots were triggered by plans to raise rents and yearlong protests against government education policies in South Africa's system of aparthood, or strict racial segregation.
A new governmental system took effect in Cape Town as former Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha was named acting state president. It was the first step to implement a plan to raise the power from power while giving Asians and people of mixed race a limited parliamentary role.
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