SIAVONGA FLOODS KILL FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL

A four year old girl of Mangaba Village in Chief Sikoongo’s area of Siavonga district in Southern Province has died after she was swept away by floods in Lusitu River.

Sikoongo ward area councilor Derrick Velemu told disclosed in an interview in Siavonga today that the four year old girl met her fate in the early hours of Monday, Jan 11th.

Mr. Velemu identified the toddler as Ireen Mutyolambili who went to the river with her mother to fetch water.
Velemu narrated that according to eye witnesses, the mother decided to put the girl down on the shores of the river as she started washing plates.

The councilor added that while the mother was still washing the plates, a huge storm surfaced sweeping away the girl into the river leaving the mother with no option but to watch her drown.

Velemu said the body of the four year old girl was however retrieved from the river some minutes later by some good Samaritans.

Meanwhile, a government house in Chirundu Township was on yesterday gutted by fire following an electrical fault on the house.

Chirundu area ward councilor Gift Chanda disclosed that a house in government complex belonging to a police officer was completely gutted to ashes following a fire that swept through it.
He said although no human was injured from the inferno, household goods worth millions of kwacha were however lost.

Chanda criticized delay that the fire tender took when it traveled from Siavonga to Chirundu in order to quench the fire that nearly spread to a neighboring house. He has since appealed to government through the ministry of Local government and housing to enable provide a tender to Chirundu township unlike the current situation were they are made to depend on a tender from Siavonga which is not efficient.