A mother was forced to throw her young child from a burning building during rioting in South Africa.
Footage shot by media outlets captured the child being thrown from a building in the city of Durban that was on fire after ground-floor shops were looted.
The mother and child were later safely reunited.
Meanwhile, the death toll has climbed to 72 from rioting yesterday, with many people trampled to death during looting at stores, as police and the military fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to try to halt the unrest.
More than 1200 people have been arrested in the lawlessness that has raged in poor areas of two provinces, where a community radio station was ransacked and forced off the air yesterday and some COVID-19 vaccination centres were closed, disrupting urgently needed inoculations.
Few days ago, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation advocating for peace.
However his speech was not powerful enough to convince the citizens to stop indulging in criminal activities.
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