OFFICIALS in the Spanish-ruled Canary Islands have detained a Georgian-registered freighter carrying an undeclared cargo of 636 tonnes of Russian arms for Angola. The cargo, which the captain had tried to conceal, included several thousand cases of 7.62mm shells, mortar shells and night-vision devices. – AFP
SUICIDE OVER TRAFFIC FINES
A TAXI driver was so overwhelmed by the number of traffic fines he received that he hanged himself. Geelbooi Sam Mtombeni, 24, of Sephaku village near Burgersfort, a long distance taxi driver, left behind a suicide note complaining about the number of traffic fines he received in Gauteng. Police are uncertain as to how much Mtombeni owed in fines. – African Eye News Service