Harare - Police in Zimbabwe said on Tuesday they have arrested four men in connection with the murder of a white farmer, but it was not clear if they were farm invaders or war veterans.
"Four people have been arrested, and firearms which we suspect were used in the murder were recovered," assistant commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena said.
"The four are from the Norton area... We have not gone into that," he said when asked if the suspects were war veterans or land invaders settled on the victim's farm.
Terry Ford was tied up and shot to death outside his homestead in Norton, 40 km west of Harare, early on Monday, by what the farming community said were suspected self-styled war veterans of the 1970s liberation struggle.
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This was the first attack on a white farmer since President Robert Mugabe beat off a challenge by Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai last week in a presidential election marred by violence and charges of vote rigging.
Most Commercial Farmers Union members backed Tsvangirai, who had promised to stop the illegal seizure of farms and to implement a negotiated programme to advance black land ownership.
Ford was the 10th white farmer to be killed since a government-sanctioned campaign to seize farms started two years ago.
Hundreds of farms have been abandoned in the face of the violent occupations and many other farmers moved to the cities or out of the country for the election, fearing violence.
Mugabe said at his inauguration on Sunday he had delivered "a stunning blow" to Britain and said he would accelerate the seizure of farms for redistribution to landless blacks.
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