B.O.S.S. agent stoned
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg A South African secret policeman from the South African Bureau of State Security opened fire on stonethrowing blacks who .attacked him as he drove through the troubled black township of Soweto yesterday, the police have said.
It was not known whether he had hit any of the demonstrators, and there was no immediate confirmation of newspaper reports that one black had been injured by police bullets, the Soweto police chief (Brigadier Jan Visser) said.
The incident, the first public indication that South African secret police were active in Soweto, came as militant students in the volatile township boycotted classes for the sixth consecutive day. The police fired birdshot to disperse stone-throwing youths at a railway station in Soweto, heart of South Africa’s black activism, but no further incidents were reported by early afternoon. The police said they did not know what the 8.0.5.5. agent had been doing in Soweto. They declined to identify him, except to say that he was white.
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