By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Monday, April 25, 1994
JOHANNESBURG—A 200-pound car bomb ripped through downtown Johannesburg yesterday, killing nine and terrorizing South Africans two days before the first all-race elections.
“I thought I was dead,” said Tina Dhumess, 42, after doctors patched her head cuts. “I was praying that my soul was going to heaven.”
There was no warning and no one claimed responsibility for the city’s worst terrorist bomb that also wounded 100 people.
But suspicion fell on white extremists—the last holdouts to the election that would usher in black-majority rule.