allAfrica.com: South Africa: Community Links Murder to Xenophobia
Natasha Joseph
26 May 2009
Two Somali men who ran a spaza shop in the Boland town of Darling have been killed in what community members describe as a xenophobic attack.
The men, Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, died in their shop in the early hours of Sunday when it caught fire - or when, the Somali community believes, a group of locals set it alight.
Police spokesperson November Filander said yesterday the cause of Sunday's fire was still unknown and the men's deaths will be investigated.
Hussein Omar, the Western Cape chairperson of the Somali Association of South Africa (Sasa), said the organisation had heard the news and had assigned someone to go to Darling and find out more about what had happened.
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