TMG Digital/TimesLive reports that police have arrested four people in connection with the massacre of 14 illegal Basotho miners on Gauteng’s East Rand earlier in March.  The bodies were found after separate shootings around illegal mine shafts in the Benoni area last week.  

On Sunday, six were found along a railway line in Benoni.  The rest were found on Monday on the banks of a nearby stream.  They are believed to have been killed elsewhere before they were dumped.  The area has become the epicentre of a battle between gangs for control of tonnes of precious metal in disused mine shafts.  The four arrested men are all Basotho nationals.  Three of them were caught in Lesotho, while one was caught in SA.  Several firearms‚ suspected to have been used in the killings‚ have been recovered.  The men are to be charged with murder and will appear in court soon.

• Read this report by Graeme Hosken in full at BusinessLive
• See too, Four arrested for murders of 14 suspected illegal miners, at News24

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