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South Africa death toll reaches 62
Associated Press
June 01, 2008

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmIvAinmgwYn-UUN6RYP_l1wNu_QD910L3HG0

Police say the death toll from attacks on foreigners across South Africa over the past three weeks has risen to 62.

National police spokeswoman Sally de Beer also says that 670 people were injured.

The previous death toll was 56, but some of the injured have died in hospitals. The increase was announced Saturday.

Relative calm has returned, but tens of thousands of foreigners are still displaced and too scared to return to the communities that chased them out.

Zimbabwean authorities had promised to take home 1,000 Zimbabweans on Saturday but this did not happen.

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