I hope to recover soon - I'm trying my level best, says 49-year-old Shamshudin Kanji, a Tanzanian immigrant whose legs were broken when he was thrown (...)

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I hope to recover soon - I'm trying my level best, says 49-year-old Shamshudin Kanji, a Tanzanian immigrant whose legs were broken when he was thrown (...)

Date11/29/1978

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McConnell, Colin (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: I hope to recover soon - I'm trying my level best; says 49-year-old Shamshudin Kanji; a Tanzanian immigrant whose legs were broken when he was thrown on subway tracks at Islington station on his way home from a prayer meeting last Jan. 3. Two young men are to be sentenced in County Court tomorrow for attack.

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