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Article: Bomb Blast Kills Three in Botswana; Explosion Prompts Fears That S. Africa May Strike Against Antiapartheid Guerrillas
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- The Washington Post
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- April 10, 1987
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A powerful car bomb exploded in a residential neighborhood in
Botswana's capital, Gaborone, early today, killing three persons and
touching off fears of a renewal of cross-border attacks by South
African security forces against African National Congress guerrillas.
Botswana's state radio said that a car with South African
registration plates blew up at about 2 a.m. in a poor neighborhood in
west Gaborone, killing an elderly woman and two children, aged 7
years and 9 months. They and four others who were injured in the
blast all were Botswana citizens, government officials said.
The explosion occurred only hours after South Africa's foreign
minister, Roelof F. (Pik) Botha, warned Botswana ...