Somalis flee as looters rampage
By admin - 16 September 2013
TERRIFIED Somalis in Port Elizabeth were forced to flee yesterday after New Brighton residents went on the rampage, burning and looting shops, following the fatal shooting of a teenager.
Three Somalis were attacked with pangas and sticks.
Seven men have been arrested for public violence.
The family of the 19-year-old shooting victim has called for calm, urging people not to take the law into their own hands.
Lunje Ntongana was shot dead, allegedly by a Somali shopkeeper, during an argument about airtime.
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