This Day in History: January 9, 1986
Additional Date: January 9, 1986
A limpet mine exploded and damaged a substation in Jacobs, Durban. Later a second limpet exploded and killed a policeman and injured others and two electrical workers who arrived at the scene of the first explosion. Just nine days after this explosion, two limpet mines exploded where a sub-station in Westville, Durban was damaged. During this period a number of explosions happened in South Africa. On 7 January, a grenade was thrown at a Railwaypoliceman in Soweto, followed by an explosion that damaged a Pretoria sub-station.