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‘Extreme fear’ among immigrants as backlash sweeps South Africa

✇The Guardian World news
By: Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

African migrants say legal status offers little protection as rallies against illegal immigration gain momentum

African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave reignited long-held xenophobic sentiment in the country.

March & March, a campaign group at the forefront of recent protests, has given people living illegally in the country until 30 June to leave, without specifying what will happen to those who do not.

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© Photograph: Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters

© Photograph: Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters

© Photograph: Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters

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India detains hotel owner as probe begins into fire that left 21 dead amid scrutiny of safety standards

✇Malay Mail - All

Malay Mail

NEW DELHI, June 4 — Indian police have arrested the owner of a New Delhi hotel where a fire killed 21 people, as investigators probe safety failures.

Police said owner Lavkesh Bajaj was arrested late yesterday, hours after the blaze gutted the building, killing at least nine Indians and several foreigners.

Two foreigners have so far been identified — one a citizen of Liberia and another from Mozambique.

Building fires in India are common due to a lack of firefighting equipment and routine disregard for safety regulations.

People trapped on upper floors were seen jumping onto mattresses below as fire ripped through the Flourish Stay hotel in a densely packed neighbourhood of the city.

Several residents were taken to hospital suffering from severe burns, as well as fractured bones after leaping into the street.

In a separate fire this morning, at least four people died in an intensive care ward in a hospital in Muzaffarpur in the eastern state of Bihar, district government official Subrat Kumar Sen said. — AFP

 

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