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Police urge people to stop sending unverified messages about xenophobic attacks─── 10:17 Sat, 18 Apr 2015
Durban - KwaZulu-Natal police have urged people to stop sending unverified messages about xenophobic attacks on social media, after false messages created panic this week.
Six people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been killed and 112 arrested since attacks escalated in KwaZulu-Natal last Friday.
Last weekend News24 verified a horrific video that was doing the rounds of a group of young men being necklaced and set alight and was being described as a xenophobic attack, was actually the necklacing of a group of men accused of killing a man after a bar fight.
Arrests followed that incident.
Among other tweets and posts this week were claims that two Malawians had their heads chopped off.
At the same time, Twitter users rounded on those they thought were making tasteless or offensive remarks about the violence.
-news24.com
