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Popular gold buyer murdered
28 Jan 2014 at 11:52hrs | Views
Mtshabezi residents found popular Gwanda gold buyer Mbonisi Moyo dead in a bushy area next to Mtshabezi River on Friday.
According to a police statement, Moyo, 25, was murdered in a suspected robbery as his body was found with stab wounds, with his head crushed by a stone that was found stained with blood beside his corpse.
Daily News reports that Moyo was found with a small bag that was left with only a gold weighing scale and mercury liquid which was covered with a blue cloth.
Police say there were shoe marks on the ground around the dead body that indicate there were about three people wrestling him.
The police also found an okapi knife and two fence poles on the scene that were used to attack Moyo and they said the objects will help them to trace the murderers.
A similar incident happened last week where another gold miner Petros Sibanda was killed and robbed of 20 grammes of gold valued at about $7 000 when he was coming from bar.
Gwanda is of late experiencing incidents of murders and robberies, a thing that local residents are not used to. The police in Gwanda have intensified patrols in the town particularly around liquor outlets where lots of cash is available in the hands of gold miners.
The suspected robbers are said to have confessed to have come all the way from Masvingo to prey on drunken gold miners who walk around with loads of cash on them.
According to a police statement, Moyo, 25, was murdered in a suspected robbery as his body was found with stab wounds, with his head crushed by a stone that was found stained with blood beside his corpse.
Daily News reports that Moyo was found with a small bag that was left with only a gold weighing scale and mercury liquid which was covered with a blue cloth.
Police say there were shoe marks on the ground around the dead body that indicate there were about three people wrestling him.
The police also found an okapi knife and two fence poles on the scene that were used to attack Moyo and they said the objects will help them to trace the murderers.
A similar incident happened last week where another gold miner Petros Sibanda was killed and robbed of 20 grammes of gold valued at about $7 000 when he was coming from bar.
Gwanda is of late experiencing incidents of murders and robberies, a thing that local residents are not used to. The police in Gwanda have intensified patrols in the town particularly around liquor outlets where lots of cash is available in the hands of gold miners.
The suspected robbers are said to have confessed to have come all the way from Masvingo to prey on drunken gold miners who walk around with loads of cash on them.
Source - dailynews
