Oscar Pistorius 'shot girlfriend' dead: report - Sydney Morning Hereald

Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has shot and killed his girlfriend, South African media are reporting.

Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld is reporting he mistook Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend of a year, for a burglar to his Pretoria home.

Johannesburg's Talk Radio 702 said Pistorius was understood to have shot Steenkamp in the head and arm.