About 100 people ransacked shops in Johannesburg overnight, police said on Monday, in the latest burst of xenophobic attacks and looting incidents in South African cities.

Doors and windows were smashed in, and food and other items were strewn on the floor in stores believed to belong to immigrants in Jeppestown, an area in the central business district.

“We’ve been stuck inside here until the police came,” Abdul Ebrahim, a Somali shop owner said after emerging from his store, where a number of his colleagues had barricaded themselves.

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