Four men arrested over massacre of 14 illegal miners
Police arrest four people in connection with the deaths of illegal Basotho miners on Gauteng’s East Rand earlier in March
Police have arrested four people in connection with the massacre of 14 illegal Basotho miners on Gauteng’s East Rand earlier in March. The bodies, laid out in particular patterns, were found after separate shootings around illegal mine shafts in the Benoni area last week. On Sunday six were found along a railway line in Benoni. The rest were found on Monday on the banks of a nearby stream. They are believed to have been killed elsewhere before they were dumped. The area has become the epicentre of a battle between gangs for control of tonnes of precious metal in disused mine shafts. In an briefing on Tuesday evening acting national police commissioner Lt-Gen Khomotso Phahlane revealed that four men — all of them Basotho nationals — had been arrested. He said that three of those who were arrested were caught in Lesotho while one was caught in South Africa. "Several firearms‚ which we suspect may have been used in the killings‚ have been recovered with those who were arrested in Lesot...
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