A twenty-six year old woman of Mbabala area in Samfya district with her six months old baby were last Sunday attacked and killed by a crocodile on Lake Bangweulu.
Luapula province police commissioner Malcom Mulenga who confirmed the incident said the woman has been as identified Sophia Nkwange of Wasaluka village was carrying her daughter Chiboni on her back were caught while trying to draw water in lake Bangweulu.
Mr Mulenga said the bodies have since been retrieved from the lake and advised the relatives to bury immediately.
He said a team of Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) officers and the Police officers were assigned to the area to crop the reptiles but during the search they did not find any.
“Recently a combined team of Police officers and ZAWA officers went to Mbabala area with a view of cropping down the reptiles but unfortunately they were not seen them,” he said.
For how long are we going to be loosing lives like this? Maybe when we have a government in place. Last week it was more of such from Kariba.
Crop the damn things man!
Why doesn’t ZAWA contract Katele Kalumba to don on his armour and go crop these invisible reptiles?
She was too young to have a child at 26
My heart goes out to the family, awful death
MHSRIP
#1.2 mushota
26yrs olds are not too young to have children. 10yrs upward start menstrating pregnancy is likely to occure thereafter.
@Mushota
Coming from someone who aborted at age 13, I can agree with you that 26 yrs is too young to have children, just saying you know….
Very sad indeed. May their souls rest in peace.
What a painful way of dying. ….Bushe ba pf, cant you priotise installing source of water for the villages. Honestly, put up those pumps where women can safely draw water from….so all the villages have been drawing water from the crocodile infested river ka……
The two bodies have been retrieved! Luapula is the capital of human crocodiles. These human crocs kill but never eat their human prey.
This is nothing to do with PF mwebantu. It’s just in us fwebena Zambia, we are better off being looked after and governed by colonial masters or other foreigners. Crocks have killed countless pipo in that area and elsewhere for that matter and for many years, even during the Kaunda era. It’s the local leadership that is lacking in these areas. Surely something should be done to stop this because, 50 years of independence is a long time and enough for us to forget for once about such loss of life.
What has become of our local administrations kanshi? Where are ba ESCO or those departments that looked after Govt vehicles and roads equipment? Surely even cheap water Pumps from China could have been installed to save lives, iyeeee….
Imagine if your pf govt had put up tap water or a hand pump. The deceased would not have gone to the lake to fetch water. Think reflectively ba guy and stop being petty.
Sad indeed!
But ba LT should be serious ati[last sentence]: “…….but unfortunately they were not seen them,” he said.’ What did they want to write?
When you are living out side Zambia and you read such statements you wonder what is going on pa zed. ” they were not seen them ” my foot!
Animal human conflict can be minimised by humans leaving animal habitats. Otherwise we envade them at our own peril.
Government should export some of these Crocs, they would make alot of money out of it. They could even start a local croc skin manufacturing company, make shoes, boots ,belts , bags, jackets skirts etc. I know there is more than necessary crocodiles in those Rivers, hope some poachers are not secretly operating under ground. Condoleces to the family.
How can they export them when they can’t even find them for cropping ???
Ichibokolo chashupa pa samfya. I remember those days in mwense wen wen the governor was part of the sting until his got killed. More details…
Yangwe bane ichibokolo ichi ! Nabalale muchibote mukwai
Please dig wells you people near the rivers and lakes you will be safe from those animals.
@mushota who are you to tell people when to have children i can see you are very dull scientificaly that is the right age to have a baby,you politicise even deaths,you are such a cursed woman with abnormal menstrual see a doctor before you go insane
@ Cindy,
Thats a great thinking. I think we need such THINK TANKS like u to help out Zambia.