/ 22 October 2000

MINER IN SUICIDE BLAST

A SOUTH African diamond miner has committed suicide by putting a stick of dynamite in his mouth and lighting it with a match. Police said Mogakalodi Thetswe, 30, killed himself in his bedroom at his parents’ house in Ganyesa in the North West province. The family thought they heard a gunshot and rushed to the room to find Thetswe with his head blown off. His bedroom windows were shattered by the blast. Thetswe’s father told police his son killed himself because he had family problems. – AFP