Residents Loot Foreigners’ Shops in South Africa’s Soweto

South Africa’s police sent more officers to Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest township, after two people died and 68 were arrested during violence targeting foreign-owned shops.

Residents looted shops owned by foreigners after a store owner shot and killed a 14-year-old boy who was part of a group of teenagers trying to rob his shop, Lesetja Mothiba, the South African Police Service’s commissioner for Gauteng province, told reporters on Thursday. A foreigner was shot dead on Wednesday during skirmishes, he said.