Death toll in anti-immigration riots reaches 62

Police say that the death toll from attacks on foreigners that spread across South Africa over the past three weeks has risen to 62.

National police spokeswoman Sally de Beer says that 670 people were injured.

The previous death toll stood at 56, but some of the injured died in hospital.

Relative calm has returned, but tens of thousands of foreigners are still displaced and too scared to return to the communities that chased them out.

Zimbabwean authorities had promised to repatriate 1,000 Zimbabweans today but this did not materialise. Just one bus showed up at a station outside Johannesburg.