A 70-YEAR-OLD man of Namonza village in Southern Province drowned in a stream while he was running away from a swarm of bees.
And a seven-year-old girl has been strangled to death and dumped in a banana plantation in Vubwi district, Eastern Province commissioner of Police Grace Chipalila has said.
Southern Province commissioner of police Mary Chikwanda said yesterday that the man who drowned has been identified as Zemba Moono and that the incident happened on Friday in Choma.
Ms Chikwanda said Mr Moono drowned as he was running for his life after being attacked by a swarm of bees.
“While at a place called Chipande and at an unknown time, Mr Moono came across a swarm of bees but as he was running away from the insects, he drowned in Namonza stream.
“It’s like Mr Moono had disturbed the insects, which attacked him,” she said.
Mr Moono’s body was retrieved from the stream and given to his family.
In the Vubwi incident, Ms Chipalila said police suspect that the girl could have been defiled before being strangled and dumped in a banana plantation.
She said in an interview in Chipata that investigations have been instituted.
“The girl went missing on May 25, 2014 and was only discovered dead on May 31, 2014. This is a murder case as the girl was strangled to death by the assailants,” Ms Chipalila said.
She said the girl had bruises on the neck and her back, an indication that someone strangled her.
Ms Chipalila said police will not rest until the culprits face justice.
She also said police in Chipata picked a body of a 64-year-old man who collapsed and died while riding a bicycle along the Chipata-Lundazi road on Saturday.
Ms Chipalila said Emmanuel Banda died in Nyakutuwe area.
kingsley
June 4, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Bees drown chipata man,a man in Namonza village in southern province has drowned.What kind of reporting is this.
chile1
June 4, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Ba tumfweko,always writing wrong thinz lyk a retard
chilolo
June 4, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Rip
visitor
June 4, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Iwe leave Tumfweko alone. Namonza is in Eastern and Vubwi in Southern!
test@e
June 4, 2014 at 1:55 pm
Its Zambian kind of reporting!!!
Village Chicken
June 4, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Tumfweko PFools. Simple facts you can’t report them as they are. Even these easily verifiable things you want to lie to us, go back to school (assuming you have been there.)
lozian
June 4, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Maybe the provinces have been merged
Kazembe wa Lunda
June 4, 2014 at 2:34 pm
Poor reporting
ZAD
June 4, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Atase,,what kind of idiotic reporting is this. alaaaaaah
JANA
June 4, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Shit!!!,,what a foolish reporter.
KAGAWA
June 4, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Shit!!!,, Nosense!
mundetelele
June 4, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Awe kwena, you deserve all the castigation you have gotten over this kind of gutter journalism FI TUMFWEKO, MWANYAA!
Grace Chipalila, follow up with your cops to ensure the case of the murdered 7 year old girl is solved. May her yopung pure soul rest in peace!
The old man was very unfortunate, to be pursued by bees and run into a stream. what are the odds? MHSRIEP!!!
The Chipata- Lundazi man most likely suffered a heart attack. MHSRIEP!!!
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June 4, 2014 at 4:53 pm
imwe chi ZAD/JANA tawakaleke ifya bupuba? Uli tole sana!!!
ZAD
June 4, 2014 at 10:20 pm
Iwe chi ??? panyopako, pawuso na panyoko.ataa!
Bambazonke
June 5, 2014 at 7:43 am
You do not cross check stories which throws your readership into confusion because the story is about chipata man aged 70 drowning & not Southern province.Tumfweko be consistent with your articles otherwise this is not for journalism
Bambazonke
June 5, 2014 at 7:47 am
You do not cross check stories which throws your readership into confusion because the story is about chipata man aged 70 drowning & not Southern province.Tumfweko be consistent with your articles otherwise this is not good for journalism
general
June 5, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Ala those ar human being.tenama.