Two illegal diamond miners have reportedly been shot dead and scores others injured after security details at the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Company shot at over 300 of the miners at a newly discovered diamonds base in Marange.
Highly placed ZimEye.com sources indicated that villagers in Marange discovered a new diamond rich area outside the ZCDC concession area a couple of weeks ago and started harvesting the precious stone outside the government mining company’s knowledge.
The sources indicate that the area has since been declared a no-go area and soldiers from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have been deployed to guard the area together with the ZCDC guards.
Efforts to get a comment from police in Mutare and ZCDC officials were not successful at the time of writing._ZimEye
