Eleven held in S. Africa in crackdown on anti-foreigner violence
Updated: 2015-04-22 14:30
(Agencies)
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JOHANNESBURG - South African authorities arrested 11 men in Johannesburg late on Tuesday suspected of involvement in violence against immigrants, local television news reported.
The men were held during a joint raid by the police and army on a Johannesburg hostel, it said on Wednesday.
A wave of anti-immigrant violence has so far claimed seven lives in trouble spots in Durban and Johannesburg, to where the government announced the deployment of defence forces on Tuesday.
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