NIGERIA said on Sunday that two of its citizens were killed last month in South Africa following violent anti-immigrant protests targeting African workers in the country.

The Nigerians were killed on June 28, two days before an unofficial deadline by protesters for foreigners to leave, the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. One was allegedly killed by police officers and the other by unidentified attackers, it said.

Anti-immigrant protesters in April and May blamed foreigners for high levels of unemployment, crime and pressure on public services.

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