PIENAAR – The burial service of a young man who was allegedly shot dead by a foreign shop-owner took a dramatic twist when local students who had attended his funeral service went on rampage raiding and burning down shops belonging to foreign individuals.

This dramatic scene played itself on Sunday morning after angry students from different local schools abandoned the early morning memorial service and took to the streets where they blocked the main roads, while looting and burning shops belonging to foreign nationals.

Police have since confirmed that no one was killed during this xenophobic attack.

Read more on this story in this week’s publication of Mpumalanga News.