Mozambique says five citizens killed in S Africa ‘xenophobic attacks’
The Mozambique government said five of its nationals were killed in “xenophobic attacks” in South Africa at the weekend, with local police June 2 confirming two deaths.
The killings in the southern coastal town of Mossel Bay are the first to be officially linked to the latest wave of protests against illegal migrants sweeping South Africa.
The Mozambique government’s media office said in a statement late on June 1 that violence broke out on May 29, focused on Mossel Bay, about 380 kilometers east of Cape Town.
“Regrettably, seven Mozambican citizens have died, five of them as a direct consequence of the xenophobic attacks and the other two as a result of a road accident, when they were travelling in a private vehicle on their way back to Mozambique,” it said.
