JOHANNESBURG: The death toll climbed to 72 from rioting in South Africa on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), with many people trampled to death during looting at stores as police and the military fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to try to halt the unrest set off by the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.
More than 1,200 people have been arrested in the lawlessness that has raged in poor areas of two provinces where a community radio station was ransacked and forced off the air on Tuesday and some Covid-19 vaccination centers were closed, disrupting urgently needed inoculations.
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