JOHANNESBURG 3 Sep (ANA) - Police have arrested scores of people in South Africa's commercial capital, Johannesburg, after protesters looted what appeared to be foreign-owned shops and set fire to cars and buildings.

 

At least 70 people were arrested, the police said in a statement on Monday,in the second outbreak of urban rioting in a week.

 

Hundreds of people marched in Johannesburg's Central Business District (CBD) earlier in the day, demanding foreigners leave, according to local news agency News 24.

 

They targeted "shops they believed to be owned by foreign nationals", the news website reported.

 

Police fired rubber bullets at looters as burned cars were stranded on the roads.(ANA)

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