A 52-year-old Brazilian miner was robbed of a quantity of gold and killed execution style while travelling out to Port Kaituma, North West District, on his ATV motorcycle early Tuesday morning.

Ms. Sumantha Cummings, who lives at Charity and is the  sister-in-law of the dead miner, said her brother-in-law, Jose Francisco De Sousa Lima, was travelling to Port Kaituma along with his father-in-law, Julianna Cummings, on his ATV motorcycle when they were attacked by three bandits on a lonely stretch of interior road.
Sumantha said a worker attached to her brother-in-law’s camp radioed her that Jose had left the camp at around 06:00hrs to drop off his father-in-law at Port Kaituma when three gun-toting bandits stopped them on the road, and shot the miner in his head before relieving them of a quantity of gold.
She said Julianna, GM of the camp, was gun-butted in the head, and fainted on the road near the dead body of his son-in-law. Sumantha said she was told that Julianna regained consciousness shortly after, and rushed back to the camp to report to workers what had happened. Workers rushed to the scene, only to discover the body of the dead Brazilian miner lying on the loam road among clothes that were ripped out from bags by the bandits in their search for gold.
Wife of the deceased Brazilian miner, Ms.Rabica Calvan, was inconsolable as she spoke to the media from her home in the Charity Extension Scheme. She said she had last spoken to her husband on Monday afternoon at approximately 17:00hrs, and he had told her that he would be going to Port Kaituma on Tuesday to drop off her step-father.
The mother of four said her last words to her husband had been “I love you”. She said they had lived together for five years in a common-law relationship that had produced two children — Zemroy, 2 years old, and Omarion, 5 months old.
Ms Calvan described her late husband as very loving and caring. She said he had worked hard for his daily bread, and had been looking forward to marrying her soon. She said she had returned from the interior only last week.
Police are investigating the circumstances of this tragedy.