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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday called on South Africa’s military to help quell widening attacks against immigrants in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, where images of riots, overwhelmed police and burning victims have revived chilling memories of apartheid-era violence.
At least 13,000 people have been chased from their homes, often a step ahead of mobs demanding that foreigners return to their native countries. News reports put the death toll at 42, with hundreds injured.
The attacks started in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra but have spread quickly.
