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Scores nabbed for looting supermarkets

July 22 2009 at 03:02PM

Members of the SA Unemployed People’s Movement went on a rampage on Wednesday afternoon looting shops in Durban, police said.

A hundred people were arrested after hundreds of people stormed Shoprite Checkers and Pick n Pay, said Captain Khephu Ndlovu.

“Earlier today we received information that the organisation was going to hold an illegal march. We then decided to deploy our members in town to monitor the situation,” Ndlovu said.

Ndlovu said 35 women and 15 men were arrested at Shoprite and 50 people were arrested at Pick n Pay at the Workshop shopping mall.

He said they would be charged with looting and theft. – Sapa