Six suspects escape from run down police cell
SIX suspects have escaped from police custody in Choma after breaking out of their cell.
District police chief Jackson Simfukwe who confirmed this to ZANIS in Choma today, said the six suspects escaped around 03.30 hours early today.
Mr. Simfukwe said the suspects managed to break out by making a big hole in the wall of the cell which is distantly located from the main police station.
He said two of the escapees were charged with the offences of burglary and theft, while two others were charged with suspected store breaking. The fifth was charged with the offence of defilement and the sixth of escaping from lawful custody.
The Choma police station cells which have been described as insecure and improper are in an old structure which previously used to be a storeroom for a farm house.
The cells have neither toilets nor water facilities, prompting the District Joint Monitoring Team on Sanitation chaired by Chief Macha to recommend that they be closed, citing violation of human rights.
Mr. Simfukwe has appealed to members of the public with information leading to the re-arrest of the fugitives to contact the nearest police station.
ZANIS
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Yaba
Negligence from the part of the Police and the government at large. The pipo you suspected could break in warehouses and stores are the ones you subject to rundown infrastructure. Ukushishita bakapokola!
Like they are the only ones outside get the civil servants 2…
Zed!!!!!!!!
This GRZ has gone to sleep. Teta talks in his sleep and we dont know when he is wake up. MMD see the reality before all prisoners break out.
not again!
KU Choma ifi, ku Monze ifyo, ku Namwala ifi. kanshi caba shani ku southern province? Bloggers, do we have Tongas in the ranks to explain these things.
Fyabutuka shani fikabolala