Nigeria says two citizens killed as anti-migrant violence surged in South Africa

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Nigeria says two citizens killed as anti-migrant violence surged in South Africa Nigeria said two of its citizens were killed in South Africa, one of them by police, during a surge in anti-migrant violence, and threatened to take unspecified action if authorities did not address the situation. There was no immediate response from South Africa's government, which has contested some similar accounts from other countries. The main police watchdog said it was investigating the report. Nigeria's foreign ministry said on Sunday one man was killed in front of his shop in the northeastern city of…