updated 2/14/2013 5:50:30 AM ET 2013-02-14T10:50:30

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police said on Thursday they had charged a 26-year-old man with murder after the girlfriend of paralympic track superstar Oscar Pistorius was shot dead at his Pretoria home.

A police spokeswoman did not name 26-year-old Pistorius, in accordance with South African law, but said he and the victim, Reeva Steenkamp, were the only people in the house at the time of the shooting.

(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Ed Stoddard)

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