/ 5 October 2000

COP KILLS FISHERMAN (80) OVER BANANAS

AN Angolan police officer has shot an 80-year-old fisherman 30 times after the man refused to give the officer some bananas, the state-run Jornal de Angola reported. Joao Lando had just taken a load of bananas out of his canoe on the Angolan side of the Congo River, when Domingos Chiloia stopped him and asked for some of the bananas. Lando agreed to give the officer two bananas, but when Chiloia insisted on more, a scuffle broke out. Chiloia, 25, shot the fisherman dead with 30 bullets, the report said. He is in custody. – AFP