Death toll mounts in South Africa rioting after Zuma jailing

Soldiers patrol and police at a shopping centre in Soweto (Themba Hadebe/AP)

Police in South Africa say at least 72 people have now been killed and 1,234 arrested in unrest set off by the imprisonment last week of former president Jacob Zuma.

In a statement issued on Tuesday night, Maj Gen Mathapelo Peters said many of the deaths were caused by stampedes of people when shops were being looted.