Two arrested for septuagenarian's death

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FRANCISTOWN: Two Kgaphamadi ward men in the Francistown West constituency, aged 22 and 24, are currently languishing in police custody in connection to the alleged gruesome murder of a 70-year-old Area W woman.

According to a police source privy to the matter, the suspects allegedly entered the deceased’s house in the early hours of Saturday morning at around 3am claiming to be workers who were hired by the deceased and her husband to finish building their house.

The source said that upon hearing that some people were knocking at the door, the old woman unwarily opened the door whereupon the men forcibly entered the house and took her to a bedroom.

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