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Calm resorted to Soweto─── 07:50 Sun, 25 Jan 2015
Soweto - Calm had been restored to Soweto following days of violence and looting of foreign-owned shops.
National police spokesperson Solomon Makgale says Soweto and other affected areas are fairly quiet after police arrested individuals who were seen in videos looting shops.
Police in Dobsonville arrested 15 people during raids on houses on Friday night. This brings the number of arrests during the week to over 170.
The unrest began on Monday when 14-year-old Siphiwe Mahori was shot dead, allegedly by a Somalian shopkeeper, as he and a group tried to rob his shop in Snake Park.
The shop owner, Senosi Yusuf, is expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate's Court tomorrow on a charge of murder.
Two other men were also killed in the course of the week.
Meanwhile, a baby was killed in Kagiso on the West Rand when it was trampled by a mob of stampeding looters. Makgale says the mob ran into a young mother who was carrying the 13-month-old baby.
Looters who were robbing a spaza shop allegedly scattered when police arrived, the baby fell and was trampled upon.
A case of murder has been opened.
