Zim gold diggers beat cop to death

HARARE-- A group of illegal gold diggers killed a policeman who was trying to arrest them in eastern Zimbabwe, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday.Constable Elson Ngwarati, 25, was severely beaten in Chimanimani district after he and a colleague confiscated ZIM$12-million (about R730) from two gold panners and tried to take the pair to a police station, the paper said.Ngwarati died later of his injuries.Ngwarati's colleague was seriously injured, while a soldier who had offered to help the police fled when the panners rounded on them, the report said."The people who were around and are also suspected to be gold dealers attacked the policeman while the soldier ran away for his life, leaving the two down," police spokesperson Joshua Tigere told the Herald.