Two young people in a house in Kuwadzana Extension, Harare, are believed to have been suffocated to death, according to a tragic occurrence that has been recorded by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).
The victims were discovered unconscious in a smoke-filled chamber, along with their mother and the other two siblings, ages 4 and 14.
On the stove, a pot of rice had burned to ashes.
After being sent to a nearby facility in Kuwadzana, the victims, Atidaishe Makechemu (10) and Atipaishe Makechemu (8), passed away shortly after being admitted.
The remaining three victims are presently being treated at Sally Mugabe Hospital after being referred there.
More details, according to the police, will be made public eventually.
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In other news, Albert Gido, a 26-year-old Shurugwi resident from Village 10, Zviumwa, was charged with murder when he appeared before the Shurugwi Magistrates’ Court recently.
The charges are related to a homicidal attack that is purportedly the result of another bargoer spilling the accused’s alcohol
The event happened on July 7, 2024, at a bottle shop in the Zviumwa Business Centre in the Shurugwi District of Midlands Province, according to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
After accusing the 35-year-old victim, Future Ngwenya, of spilling his beer, the accused, Gido, attacked him with his bare hands.
Other bargoers stepped in and stopped Gido from attacking Ngwenya any more. But it is said that at approximately 11 p.m., when the majority of the other patrons had left the establishment, Gido attacked Ngwenya once more, allegedly using a plastic chair and his bare hands, while his accomplice, Trymore Manhoro (30), who is still at large, restrained the victim.
The bartender then ejected Gido and Manhoro from the premises. After that, according to reports, Gido allegedly pulled the seriously hurt Ngwenya to a remote area and used a sharp object to stab the victim in the stomach and armpit.
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Ngwenya was left gripping his protruding intestines and bleeding heavily as the accused and his accomplice left the scene.
Gido was placed under arrest and remand until.
