The death toll in South Africa has increased to 72 because violence continues throughout the country after the prison of former President Jacob Zuma.
The crowd looted and arranged a shopping center that fell clash with police in several cities on Tuesday.
The BBC filmed the baby thrown from a building in Durban which was burned after the ground floor shops were looted.
The day before, 10 people were killed in Stampede when looting in shopping centers in Soweto.
The military was deployed to help the police excessive since the unrest began last week.
South African police said in a statement they had identified 12 suspicious people provoking riots, and that a total of 1,234 people had been arrested.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called it some of the worst violence witnessed in South Africa since the 1990s, before the end of apartheid, with fires began, highways blocked and business and warehouses looted in big cities and small cities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal And Gauteng.
Watch: Why violence broke?
- Looting and shooting in the ‘South African war zone
- From Freedom Fighter to the President to be imprisoned
- The ministers have warned that if looting continues, there is an area of risk that can run out of staple food supply immediately – but has ruled out stating the emergency.
What happened to the baby?
The child was arrested by a crowd of people who rushed to help those who were trapped in the apartment block in the Durban Business Center area, a coastal city in KwaZulu-Natal, on Tuesday afternoon.
Those who stole from shops on the ground floor Smith Street had started the fire spread, influencing those who lived upstairs.
Nomsa Maseko BBC in Durban said that after arresting the baby, passing people and neighbors rushed to get stairs to help other residents, including children, fled.
The mother was reunited with her baby, but it was too emotional to speak. Rescue services arrived after about 20 minutes to help put out the fire.
How bad is the damage?
More than 200 shopping centers have been looted on Monday afternoon, Bloomberg News Agency quoted the chief executive of South Africa’s business leadership, Busisiwe Mavuso, who said.
Some shopping centers in Soweto – the largest city in South Africa which was once home to Nelson Mandela – has been fully searched, with ATMs broiled, restaurants, shops that sell alcohol and clothing stores left in ragged.
Soldiers working with police managed to capture several rioters; In total almost 800 was arrested, but the law enforcement was still inferior, he reported.
At KwaZulu-Natal – where livestock was also stolen – riots continued with an ambulance that came attacked by rioters in several regions, reporting the Timesslive news site in South Africa.
Video recordings show that blood banks were looted in Durban because Mr. Ramaphosa discussed the nation on Monday night.
Analysis: What’s behind the riots?
The catalyst was the arrest of last week Zuma, with its supporters blocking the main roads – the nation’s economic arteries – because they demanded the liberation of their political heroes.
Low income and unemployed levels – stand at a record high of 32.6% among the workforce and even higher at 46.3% among young people – seen as a bomb exploding.
Many South Africans were shaken by riots that had swept the heart of Zuma’s politics from Kwazulu-Christmas and the Gauteng Economic Center.
And many who feel their replacement as president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has failed to give a decisive leadership – good to calm anger over the imprisonment of Zuma or to convince South Africans that they will be safe.
Mr. Ramaphosa was accused of placing the forces late – and only 2,500 of them compared to the 70,000 he used to enforce the national lock to curb the spread of Covid-19 years ago.