Gatherers of wood find decomposing body

FRANCISTOWN: A firewood gatherer who thought she had found the best log to banish the cold discovered to her horror that instead it was the partly decomposed body of a person.

A woman set out with Monday morning with fellow firewood gatherers for the bushes around the Francistown Stadium that is currently under construction.  As they were looking for logs among thorn-bushes, she heard a scream from one of her colleagues.
"I thought one of us had been bitten by a snake and rushed over, only to find her bending over the body of a dead man," the woman said.

The dead man was wearing a khakhi-brown long-sleeved shirt and a pair of dark blue trousers. His body was lying in tall grass a few metres from a billboard.

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