Zim deports sports journo
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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean officials deported England's Daily Telegraph newspaper sports correspondent Mihir Bose on Tuesday.

His passport was confiscated by three immigration officials at his Bulawayo hotel on Monday night.

After an interview at the immigration department in Bulawayo on Tuesday morning, Bose was told to leave and he caught a plane to Johannesburg, South Africa, in events witnessed by an Associated Press reporter.

His application for accreditation to cover the Sri Lanka cricket tour to Zimbabwe, which started on Tuesday with a one-day international match, arrived too late at the offices of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union.

An official at Queens Sports Club ground said that the information sent by Bose was also incomplete and accreditation was refused.

This meant he was not able to stay in the country.

The British Embassy in Harare was informed of developments in Bulawayo.

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