South African farmworker suffers 'death by oranges'


In the wrong hands, this humble fruit can be 'deadly'.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: Two farmworkers have been arrested for allegedly killing a colleague by pelting him with oranges, South African police said Wednesday.

A quarrel on a farm outside Tzaneen in the northern Limpopo province on Monday turned deadly when the two men armed themselves with fruit, said Lieutenant-Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe.

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