Zambia Deploys 1,000 Police to Quell Riots Targeting Foreigners
- Two people were burned alive amid shop lootings in the capital
- Riots targeting mainly Rwandans are slowly being subdued
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Zambia has deployed more than 1,000 police officers in the capital, Lusaka, to subdue riots targeting shops owned mainly by Rwandan nationals that left at least two people dead, police said.
“They are slowly dying down; we can’t say they’ve died out,” police spokeswoman Charity Munganga-Chanda said by phone Wednesday. “When we receive a report we move in.”