Canadian Envoy Attacked in S. Africa
Friday, February 5, 1999; 10:37 a.m. EST
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- The Canadian ambassador to South
Africa was the latest victim in South Africa's crime wave, attacked in his
hotel room by an intruder pretending to be a maintenance worker.
The attack on James Bartleman occurred Thursday morning after he
checked into the Winchester Mansions hotel, Suzanne Gobeil, second
secretary at the Canadian High Commission, said Friday.
Bartleman was in Cape Town planning to attend President Nelson
Mandela's final speech to Parliament on Friday.
He suffered a fractured nose, bruised foot and cut lip during a scuffle with
the attacker, who knocked on his door and announced there was
something wrong with the fan system.
After Bartleman, 59, turned his back, the attacker pulled out stun gun,
Gobeil said.
The attack came just a day after the slaying of a South Korean business
executive, Yong Koo Kwon, in Johannesburg on Wednesday, possibly in
a botched carjacking, police said.
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