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10 Year-Old Kitwe BOY Held FOR Murder
A 10-year old boy is being held in police custody in Kitwe in connection with the suspicious death of his friend aged nine.
The nine-year-old was murdered and his body bundled in a sack by two men.
The two men had promised the incarcerated child that he would be rich if he availed them his friend so that they could kill him.
In an unbelievable event, the boy, a grade two pupil at a named primary school in Nkana East, convinced a friend to accompany him for a swim in the Copper Stream between Nkana East and Ndeke Village residential areas.
After swimming, the child allegedly handed over his friend to the two men, who killed him using an iron bar and put his body in a sack, which they carried away.
The body was, however, found floating in the stream the following day.
Copperbelt Commissioner of Police Joyce Kasosa confirmed the bizarre incident, which happened on October 23, 2014 and said both the incarcerated boy and the deceased child were from Zambia Township.
Investigations by the Times revealed that the boy, currently being held at Nkana East Police Station, was apprehended last month after he connived with two men to kill his friend.
“Police have picked the 10-year-old juvenile and he has confessed having led the friend to the two men to be killed and now police are in pursuit of the two fugitives,” sources said.
Prior to the weird murder, the incarcerated boy had come into contact with the two men, only identified as Peter and Joe, who asked him to bring a friend so that they could kill him.
The two men had told the child that once they killed his friend, the boy would accumulate wealth.
The two men bought the boy sweets and other foodstuff to seal the deal.
On the fateful day, as arranged, the incarcerated boy convinced the friend to follow him to Copper Stream for swimming after which the two men pounced on the friend and killed him.
They packed his body in a sack and left but the body was found floating in the same stream the following day, with blood oozing from the nose.
It was believed the assailants dumped the body in the stream to make it look like a drowning.
Sources said the postmortem conducted at Kitwe Central Hospital showed that the boy did not die from drowning but that he was killed.
Posted by
Barotse Buffalo
November 10, 2014 at 10:20 am
Please ba Tumfweko give us facts . What was the motive behind the killing? Was it a ritual murder? Any parts missing from the corpse?
Mzee Hekima
November 10, 2014 at 10:43 am
This story does not make sense why was the boy killed the just killed and threw him in the river then what.
I AM
November 10, 2014 at 10:53 am
Hell my friend is here on earth, living in poverty is hell. POVERTY IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL EVIL
Joshua
November 10, 2014 at 10:53 am
The all story is not making sense,please help to
understand what happened not confusing us
Joshua
November 10, 2014 at 10:56 am
The all story is not making sense,please help us to
understand what happened not confusing us
Joe Bidden
November 10, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Stupid story with lots of repetitions this is whats wrong with TUMFWEKO they like to bring stories which themselves have no clue about, or facts-less bundling of words and post it. Thereafter they go home ati twainuka!
Umupandapwiti
November 10, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Not everything that happens is supposed to make sense, efyo kwabela na mashilu ne fipuba. MHSRIP. Very sad indeed…
Green
November 10, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Ignorance played a part.he is too young to even understand what’s going on or even even coming to terms with the implications of his actions on material date,all he was thinking about was sausages
kalikeka
November 10, 2014 at 9:31 pm
It is so obvious that the two men are a figment of the boy’s wild imagination!! Any parent or good policeman would know that the child is too scared to tell the real truth about what actually happened! The point is: why did these men only hurt his friend and not him as well?? And if they had bundled his friend up into a sack and taken away, why did the body still turn up in the river at a later stage?? My suspicion is that the boy and his friend could have been playing when an accident happened or maybe they had a fight before he accidentally pushed his friend, fatally injuring him.