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Oscar Pistorius has been taken into police custody after a 30-year-old woman, believed
to be his girlfriend, was shot dead at his home in South Africa.Several South African
new outlets reported that Pistorius may have mistaken her for a burglar and shot her dead.
Officers found a 9-mm pistol at the scene and arrested the 26-year-old.He made history
at the London 2012 games when he became the first double-amputee runner to compete at
an Olympics. South Africa has one of the highest rates of crime in the world and many residents
keep weapons to protect themselves against intruders. A police statement said that a
30-year-old woman was "fatally wounded" in the early hours of Thursday morning at a home
in the Silverlakes complex in the Boschkop area of the capital Pretoria. For years he
dominated in his category at successive Paralympic Games. The South African Sports Confederation
and Olympic Committee said it had been inundated with questions over the incident, but was
in no position to comment.