Foreigners tell of being 'hunted like dogs' in South Africa
Blantyre (Malawi) (AFP) - Foreigners fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa told Tuesday of how they escaped marauding death mobs and vowed never to return to the country where they had sought a new life.
Holding her one-year-old daughter in her arms, Agnes Salanje from Malawi said she "faced death" during the wave of anti-immigrant violence that has claimed at least seven lives.
"We could have been killed as these South Africans hunted for foreigners, going from door to door," Salanje, who was a domestic worker in the Indian Ocean port city of Durban, told AFP.
Nearly 400 Malawians arrived overnight in the city of Blantyre in the south of the country, where they were met by government ministers and officials.
The attacks on foreigners have sparked anger and protests against South Africa across the rest of the continent.
Salanje, who was paid $200 a month, said she escaped the attackers after being "tipped off by a good neighbour and we ran to a mosque to seek shelter."
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