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Fight over ditaola ends deadly

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FRANCISTOWN: The trial of a 57-year-old Tshimoyapula man, who is accused of fatally stabbing a man in his 30s during a dispute over divination bones or ditaola, continued on Friday before Justice Bengbame Sechele.

Oduetse Morukuru is facing charges of murdering Galethasane Koobonye at Sesase cattlepost near Tshimoyapula on September 26, 2018. Morukuru allegedly stabbed Koobonye with an Okapi knife in the chest.

The last witness for the prosecution, Detective Sergeant Daniel Diphala, the Investigating Officer in the case, recounted events when he and three of his colleagues responded to a murder report after one Odisitse Batsile called Serowe Police Station at around 5am.

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