Zambia Anti-Foreigner Riots Claim 5 Lives as Looting Spreads
- President Edgar Lungu condemns `acts of murder' during riots
- Rioting, looting started after suspected ritual killings
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Riots in Zambia’s capital spread to other parts of Lusaka on Tuesday as looters ransacked shops owned by immigrants, particularly Rwandans, and the ruling Patriotic Front party said five people may have so far been killed in the attacks.
Residents in low-income areas in the west of the city of about 2.5 million people started looting foreign-owned shops on Monday after bodies were found in what was suspected to be ritual killings. Lusaka-based Radio Phoenix reported that 254 people have been arrested.