The World - News from May 6, 1986

Black gunmen shot their way into a South African hospital, killing a visitor and freeing a suspected member of the outlawed African National Congress. Police said that an unknown number of raiders burst into the Edendale hospital in Pietermaritzburg and snatched Steven Mkhize, 22, from the intensive-care unit. Two police guards were slightly wounded before the attackers fled with the man, injured in a gun battle with police last week. The raiders pushed Mkhize out of the hospital on a gurney after removing intravenous-feeding and blood-transfusion tubes.