In Brief

Decapitated boy found on train JOHANNESBURG – A Soweto teenager has died in an apparent attempt to ‘surf’ trains, Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said yesterday.

Midgley said that the boy’s body had been found decapitated on top of a train at the Midway Railway Station in Soweto on Saturday. “We could not determine his age as his head had been decapitated,” said Midgley.Train ‘Surfing’ involves climbing on the roof or in and out of moving railway carriages, often in close proximity to high voltage cables.Several teens have been electrocuted or fallen of trains while train surfing in recent months.* 10 more affected with XDR-TB JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is sending an expert to South Africa to assist with extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) – detected in 10 more people in the Eastern Cape, the provincial health department said on Saturday, World TB Day.The latest cases bring to 54 the number of people affected by the illness in the province since November 2006, said department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.Acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe, who was in the area to mark the international focus day, said the WHO official would arrive next week to give technical assistance, advice on training and the management of XDR-TB cases, infection control and improvement of surveillance system and laboratory services.* Zim train petrol-bombed HARARE – Five people were injured when a passenger train was petrol-bombed in a Harare suburb, Zimbabwe police said on Saturday.Unknown assailants threw a tear-gas canister and then a petrol bomb onto the train, which was carrying 750 passengers on Friday night, police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena told state radio.The train was passing through the high-density suburb of Mufakose on its way to the second city of Bulawayo when the incident happened.Police then escorted the train to Bulawayo, according to state radio.The five injured were taken to Harare Central Hospital.A 34-year-old woman who was two months pregnant is believed to have miscarried as a result of shock.Political tensions are high in Zimbabwe following the arrest and beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of his colleagues a fortnight ago.Nampa-Sapa-dpa”We could not determine his age as his head had been decapitated,” said Midgley.Train ‘Surfing’ involves climbing on the roof or in and out of moving railway carriages, often in close proximity to high voltage cables.Several teens have been electrocuted or fallen of trains while train surfing in recent months. * 10 more affected with XDR-TB JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is sending an expert to South Africa to assist with extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) – detected in 10 more people in the Eastern Cape, the provincial health department said on Saturday, World TB Day.The latest cases bring to 54 the number of people affected by the illness in the province since November 2006, said department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.Acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe, who was in the area to mark the international focus day, said the WHO official would arrive next week to give technical assistance, advice on training and the management of XDR-TB cases, infection control and improvement of surveillance system and laboratory services.* Zim train petrol-bombed HARARE – Five people were injured when a passenger train was petrol-bombed in a Harare suburb, Zimbabwe police said on Saturday.Unknown assailants threw a tear-gas canister and then a petrol bomb onto the train, which was carrying 750 passengers on Friday night, police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena told state radio.The train was passing through the high-density suburb of Mufakose on its way to the second city of Bulawayo when the incident happened.Police then escorted the train to Bulawayo, according to state radio.The five injured were taken to Harare Central Hospital.A 34-year-old woman who was two months pregnant is believed to have miscarried as a result of shock.Political tensions are high in Zimbabwe following the arrest and beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of his colleagues a fortnight ago.Nampa-Sapa-dpa