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The situation is out of control in parts of Hillbrow and police are using teargas and firing rubber bullets to disperse a group of people who've been looting shops.

The looting of foreign-owned shops has now spread to the Johannesburg CBD. Police have been engaged in running battles with a group of people targeting shops in the Hillbrow area. This follows similar incidents in Tembisa, Turffontein, Jeppestown and Malvern earlier. The situation is out of control in parts of Hillbrow and police are using teargas and firing rubber bullets to disperse a group of people who’ve been looting shops.Several shops have now been closed and people are moving in different directions trying to evade the chaos. Some streets have now been blocked by a group of protesters with burning tyres following their clashes with the police.Meanwhile, an SABC News radio journalist has been attacked in Jeppestown, Johannesburg.

 

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