South African police deployed reinforcements on Monday to a farming area where community members killed three foreign nationals in random revenge attacks after the murder of a local man in a bar fight.
Specialised units were sent to the Valencia citrus-growing area in the Eastern Cape province after the spate of attacks on Sunday and Monday, provincial police said in a statement.
"It is believed that these unlawful acts of revenge attacks began with an incident in which a local resident was allegedly murdered following a fight between a group of local residents and foreign nationals outside a tavern on Saturday," it said.
Afterwards community members "took to the streets and reportedly attacked foreign nationals," it said, adding the attacks were carried out "randomly".
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