10 Observed events
The attackers divide into 3 groups.
- One moves ahead 'shouting, breaking windows and causing confusion'
- a second armed mainly with pangas and assegaais, breaks into houses and attacks residents
- a third, reportedly consisting mainly of armed white men, surround the houses and gun down anyone who tries to escape through the windows and doors.
Twenty-one people die in Boipatong township that night.