Officer Kills 7 at Military Base

A black army lieutenant went from building to building at his infantry base firing at fellow officers and killing seven people, all white, in a crime that investigators say could be racially motivated. Five other people, also white, were wounded in the shootout at Tempe military base, police said. Police spokeswoman Johlene van der Merwe said the dead included a major and several other officers. The rampage stopped when Lt. Sibusiso Madubela, 28, who was armed with an assault rifle, was killed in a shootout with military officers at the base, located about 220 miles south of Johannesburg in Bloemfontein, capital of the Free State province.