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News24 reports that a farmer allegedly shot and wounded a farm worker with a pellet gun in Letsitele, after allegedly mistaking him for a monkey, Limpopo police said on Thursday.
Mathanene Ishmael, 55, was returning from a store room on his bicycle on Wednesday when the farmer allegedly shot him in the head with a pellet gun. Ishmael was rushed to a nearby hospital with a head injury. The 47-year-old farmer was arrested and was due to appear in the Ritavi Magistrate's Court on Friday on a charge of attempted murder. Meanwhile, an 87-year-old man appeared in the Umzinto Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing a 12-year-old boy he apparently mistook for a monkey. The boy had been climbing a guava tree on the man's property on Sunday when he was shot in the head and upper body.
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