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Armed robbers pounce on miners

by Simbarashe Sithole
01 Dec 2022 at 11:46hrs | Views
TWO armed robbers clad in Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were unlucky after robbing a Mazowe miner and a Chiweshe miner of their pregnant carbons.


The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts on Wednesday where Ronald Chatyora (30) and Rodwell Chatyora (34) appeared before regional  magistrate  Amos Mbobo.

Mbobo remanded the two in custody to December 23.

The state led by Munyaradzi Katsvairo alleged  on August 11 the two connived with 15 others who are still at large and armed themselves  with firearms, machetes, bolt cutter and catapults.

The armed robbers pounced on a Mazowe miner at Mazowe Valley mine where they threatened to shoor the owner and robbed him of his pregnant  carbons, the used the same modus operand at  Asakina minerals mine, Rosa in Chiweshe.

The complainants managed to identify their gateaway car a Toyota Hilux Raider registration number AFX2627 and filed a police report.

The suspected robbers were subsquently  arrested in Kwekwe were they were processing the pregnant  carbons at the elution plant.

Source - Byo24news