S.A. rescue bid alleged
NZPA-Reuter Harare
Zimbabwe said that South Africa tried to rescue six suspected agents on their way to a court hearing last week. The Security Minister, Sydney Sekeremayi, told a news conference on Monday the failed attempt, in which a girl, aged 11, was shot in the stomach, had the backing of the South African Government. He said the girl was
shot by a white Zimbabwean air force pilot who escaped to South Africa after the rescue was aborted.
The pilot, named as Group Captain Gary Kane, who was alleged to have stolen an air force Augusta Bell helicopter, escaped with one other member of the rescue
squad. The rescue bid took place on June 30 when the six men, held since
January in connection with bomb attacks on the African National Congress (A.N.C.), were on their way to court from Chi-
kurubi prison outside Harare.. Sekeremayi said one person, a white, was in custody after being arrested at the Kazungula border post between Zim-
babwe and Zambia. Other South African agents were thought to be still at large in Zimbabwe.
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