A 17-year-old boy of Four Mile Village, Port Kaituma is now in police custody after he allegedly murdered a 21-year-old miner of Quarry Top, Port Kaituma, North West District.
Dead is 21 year-old Shimron Benjamin.
A police press release said that the 17 year-old, allegedly murdered Benjamin early yesterday morning.
Enquiries revealed that around 00:30 hours on Tuesday, Benjamin was drinking high wine along with the 17-year-old suspect, and both of them appeared to have been intoxicated. At around 01:00 hours, Tuesday, a 64-year-old farmer of S1A Junction, Four-Mile Village, saw Benjamin lying motionless in the grass with blood on his head about 30 feet from his home.