A GWANDA miner has been arrested for allegedly strangling a
workmate before dumping his body along a railway line, where it was crushed by
a train.
The matter was initially treated as a suicide case after
deceased’s body was run over by a goods train.
Albert Ncube (31) of Spitzkop Suburb was not asked to plead
when he appeared before Gwanda magistrate, Miss Lerato Nyathi facing a murder
charge.
He was remanded in custody to July 13. Prosecuting, Mr
Silent Shoko said Ncube accused the now deceased Onias Mushipe of “stealing”
his girlfriends which resulted in a misunderstanding.
“On 1 June at around 7PM Ncube and nine other artisanal
miners including Onias Mushipe boarded a Toyota Granvia vehicle and headed to
Prospect Gold Mine at Mgomo Farm in Gwanda. Along the way a misunderstanding
arose between Mushipe and Ncube after Ncube accused him of taking his
girlfriends,” said Mr Shoko.
“Their workmates managed to calm them down in order to stop
them from fighting further. The gang dropped off at Cobra Mine which is
opposite Mgomo Farm. The other mine workers went ahead to do their work and
Mushipe, Ncube and their workmate Mr Tinashe Dube remained behind to resolve
the dispute they had earlier.”
Mr Shoko said Ncube further accused Mushipe of snatching
his girlfriends and tripped him to the ground before strangling him.
He said upon realising what had transpired Mr Dube fled
from the scene leaving Ncube behind with Mushipe’s body.
Mr Shoko said in a bid to conceal the offence Ncube then
took the body to a nearby railway line and placed it there with the head on the
line facing upwards. He said at around 10PM Mushipe’s body was crushed by a
goods train.
The matter was reported to the police who attended the
scene.
Mr Shoko said police received a tip off on Saturday
resulting in Ncube’s arrest. Ncube had been on the run for the past two years
after committing robbery and attempted murder cases in Fort Rixon where he
reportedly robbed a victim and further tried to dump the body in a disused
mine. Chronicle
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