Shop stewards stuck pole in woman's privates

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By Staff Reporter

A FEMALE shoplifter has died in the Zimbabwean city of Chitungwiza after four shop employees shoved a stick into her vagina.

The four employees -- two men and two women -- could now face murder charges, police said.

The woman met her fate after she was caught trying to leave the shop in an area called Unit N with a tablet of bathing soap -- said to be worth $20 000 (about £0.1), the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.

The dead woman has not been identified, and her age was not given.

"She was apprehended outside the shop by the employees, taken to the back of the premises and severely assaulted, before the stick was forced into her private parts," the paper said.

Chitungwiza residents are said to have tried to remove the stick which had become lodged in her vagina, with no success.

The woman later died before an operation could be carried out to remove the stick.

The Mirror said a resident interviewed revealed that one of the employees boasted he had “fixed the thief" minutes after the incident.

Another unnamed resident told the paper: “How could they kill someone for a tablet of bathing soap which is worth less than $20 000?"

Zimbabwe is going through its worst economic crisis in recent history, marked by chronic shortages of basic commodities and runaway inflation. A joint report by the United Nations and a Zimbabwe government committee released last Thursday revealed that close to three million people are in need of food aid.

Almost 70 percent of the country's able population is unemployed and foreign investments in the Southern African country have dropped significantly since the government embarked on a programme of seizing white commercial farmland for resettlement.
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