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South Africa: At least 337 people have died in violence

The violent episodes that shocked her South Africa last week they left behind 337 dead, according to the latest provisional report, the government announced today.

“South African police have reviewed the total number of deaths” in his area Johannesburg in 79 and in the eastern province KwaZulu-Natal at 258 as a result of the violence, the minister said Hubunjo Nsavheni, attributing part of this increase to the “injured who succumbed to their injuries”.

According to the EIA, corpses were also found in various places inside buildings, construction sites or industrial facilities that caught fire around the port. Durban and whose retrieval has just begun.

In the industrial suburb Paidown, a police officer told the French Agency this week that in the last few days many bodies of people who trapped in fires, who were robbed in the middle of the episodes.

Violence, looting and arson broke out on July 9 in KwaZulu-Natal, the day after the former president was jailed. Jacob Zuma, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for insulting a court. The riots quickly spread to Johannesburg.

It is recalled that 79-year-old Zuma was convicted last month for contempt of the order of the Constitutional Court to testify in the context of an investigation into corruption at a high level during the nine years he was in power until 2018.

The South African president Cyril Ramafoza complained that the riots and looting that lasted for a week were instigated and that there were people who planned and coordinated them, talking about a orchestrated attempt at destabilization of the country.

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