72- year -old farmer robbed

FRANCISTOWN: A 72-year-old Matsiloje man was last week Wednesday attacked and tied up in his house by two men for two days who robbed him of goods worth over P50,000.

According to Marcelo Acquet, a Belgian-born man who stays alone in his Matopi farm along the old Matsiloje Road, said that on December 29 last year, around 2pm, a man entered his farm and asked for water.

He showed him the tap. After drinking water, the man walked towards the house.

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