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A series of bomb explosions in the Johannesburg township of Soweto damaged a mosque and railway lines linking the predominantly black township with South Africa’s biggest city and killed at least one person, officials and the media reported early today.
Nine bombs had exploded, with one rocking a squatter camp, killing one person and wounding another, and said two more bombs were disarmed by police.
Soweto police spokesman Superintendent Richard Luvheng told the SAPA news agency that the explosion at the mosque came at about five minutes to midnight local time on Tuesday.
He said the explosion, which he described as resulting from a bomb, ripped a hole in the northern wall of the mosque in Soweto’s Dlamini area.
Metrorail spokeswoman Lilian Mofokeng said at least two blasts occurred along railway lines between Soweto and Johannesburg. She said the damage appeared to be extensive.
The first explosion was inside a station and the second along a railway line, she said. The South African broadcasting service said another person might have died in the blast on the line.
