At least 17 people were killed in shooting and stabbing attacks in the black township of Soweto after an Inkatha Freedom Party rally, police said Monday.

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Police said at least 13 people were injured in the fighting that broke out Sunday when some 12,000 Inkatha members, many of them armed, left a rally in the sprawling township outside Johannesburg.The fighting was the worst in Soweto in recent months.

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