Worker shot dead near Lonmin's South Africa mine - police


  • World
  • Tuesday, 30 Jul 2013

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A 49-year-old worker was shot dead at the weekend near Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa, stirring worries of new labour tension in the troubled platinum mining belt which has been racked by a violent union dispute over the last year.

Police said on Tuesday the shooting took place on Sunday but they could not immediately confirm whether it was related to a bloody mining union turf war over the past year in which more than 50 people have been killed.

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