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A bomb exploded on Tuesday near the US Consulate in the centre of Cape Town, leaving six people with minor injuries and destroying a car, South African news reports said.
The explosion hit just as the afternoon rush hour was getting underway. It was centred in an area of office buildings on Adderley Street, one of the city’s main roads. “The US Consulate’s operations were not affected,” consulate spokesman Brian Penn was quoted as saying. He said no one in the consulate was injured in the blast.
Police spokesman Rod Beer said it was too early to speculate on the bomb’s target. In the past two years, Cape Town has been the target of numerous bomb attacks that have killed two people and injured at least 100.
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