Two boys from the same family have died of suspected food poisoning in Mpulungu’s Chilwa village while three others have been admitted to Mpulungu district Hospital.
Meanwhile, the deceased family members to day beat to death a 49 year old man who they suspected to have given the poisoned foodstuffs.
ZANIS reports that both police in the district and health officials have confirmed the incident in separate interviews.
The deceased were named and aged 12, and five, years, respectively.
Police sources said that the incident happened last evening when the family ate food provided by the late Davies Mazimba.
According to sources, Mazimba accompanied by his wife, are said to have taken some food to the victims’ family during a routine visit.
The whereabouts of wife to the deceased man are unknown after being equally badly beaten.
Facts are that as the family sat to have their meal, the deceased victims developed stomach problems and died on the way to the hospital.
Police said the community later realizing the case as that of food poisoning, descended on Mazimba and his wife and started beating them.
The mob beat up Mazimba who died on the spot whilst his wife was whisked away from the angry mob by unknown sympathizers.
The bodies of the three people are lying in Mpulungu District Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem and burial.
A visit this morning at the hospital found the other victims of the suspected poisoning lying in hospital beds in their respective wards.
Hospital authorities identified those admitted as Cylla Nankala, Eddie Sikapite and William Sikapite.
Police are still carrying out investigations to establish the motive behind the food poisoning.
ZANIS
these bembas… kaya!! just yesterday i was praising them i thought they had changed,,, i love the drama from bembaland.. i tell you without them, there would be no `juicy` news in zambia
These are namwangas iwe chik-ala.Did a bemba man chews your wife ? I always wonder why you hate them this much.Your elementally level thinking disgusts me.
get your facts right. at least you should know Zambian tribes. those are not bembas
They would be no Zambia to be precise iwe mambala!
Ndobo is passionate about the Great Bemba tribe and he has sleepless nights and wished he was one. So bane, mulekeni he is just envious of this Greatest tribe on this planet.
Fuseki ******we kapoli wabula umuchila
Iwe Chimbwi so you dont even know what tribe live in Mpulungu area.You are a complete empty tin!!Ilichikopo sana!!
Ndobo these are not Bembas but to Tumbukas from Muyombe.
They are not Bembas iwe kolwe.
Very sad.Looks like instant mob justice will be with us for sometimes.Mtsrip.
*sometime*
Ba Fikala your all ignorant, people in Mpulungu are not Bembas, not even Tumbukas-those guys are Mambwe-Lungus
You people,bushe abana bekafye ebalile beka?(was the food given to children alone).
Sad Story mwe…but mob justice is certainly not the way to go!
what a sad story,………….and some of you only see tribes in everything. why even think of what tribe they belong to? does it matter, really?
Fuseki ******we kapoli wabula umuchila Ndobo