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BULAWAYO. – An 18-year-old Pumula South firewood vendor was stabbed to death in a turf war involving teenage gangsters in the suburb. Mthulisi Ncube died minutes after a rival gangster allegedly plunged a knife into his neck.

He was reportedly trying to stop his friends from fighting two boys.

Witnesses said his friends were having a heated exchange with their rivals whom they found walking in their “territory”.

The stabbing, which reportedly involved pupils from a local High School, occurred in full view of vendors who sell their wares along Intemba Road in Pumula South. -The Herald.