More than 250 individuals have been captured in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, to control xenophobic savagery which has hit the city, police say.

No less than 62 Rwandan-possessed shops have been plundered in the mobs which have spread to nine poor neighborhoods, police included.

Numerous Zambians portray it as the most exceedingly awful xenophobic brutality in the nation.

The mobs began in two zones on Monday taking after bits of gossip that Rwandans were behind custom killings in Lusaka.

No less than seven individuals have been killed as of late and their body parts expelled.

Bits of gossip coursing on online networking charged the body parts would be utilized as charms to guarantee achievement in business.