{"id":328789,"date":"2017-06-16T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328789"},"modified":"2017-06-16T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T09:00:13","slug":"lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s wife shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration.<\/p>\n
Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home with a friend when both women were shot by an unknown assailant, the police say.<\/p>\n
The police add the motive is unknown and an investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n
The couple had been living separately since 2012 and filed for divorce which hasn’t been granted yet.<\/p>\n
BBC southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports that neighbours claim there had been an incident earlier in the week when a group of unidentified men were spotted hammering on the First Lady’s door.<\/p>\n
She won a high court battle against her husband to secure the privileges of a First Lady, instead of Mr Thabane’s youngest wife, Liabiloe, reports the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
Mr Thabane is now living with a third wife.<\/p>\n
Samonyane Ntsekele, the secretary general of Mr Thabane’s All Basotho Convention party, told AFP that the prime minister was devastated by the shooting.<\/p>\n