SA Police Guards Foreign Shops After Mob Violence

{{After a mob looted stores overnight amid simmering anger at immigrants, South African policemen Monday guarded foreign-owned shops in an impoverished Johannesburg township.}}

foreign shop owners packed their wares in trucks as armoured police vehicles patrolled the dusty Diepsloot township north of Johannesburg, where rubber bullet casings and burnt tyres littered the streets.

On Sunday, police dispersed more than 100 people who went on a rampage after a Somali shop owner allegedly shot dead two people, according to police.

Police kept a close eye as foreign business owners took away products ranging from baby nappies to televisions and cooking pots.

Amid widespread poverty and unemployment, frustration in South Africa’s run-down neighbourhoods often boils over into anti-immigrant violence.

Last week, mobs looted foreign-owned stores in townships around Johannesburg.

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