A 32-year-old man has died in a sand quarry accident after he and his colleague were buried alive in a trench.
The accident happened in Kamakonde area where a trench caved in and buried Kaoma Chibuluma, 42, and Green Kapelelwa who died on the spot.
Mr Chibuluma is currently receiving treatment at Kalulushi District Hospital.
The accident was confirmed by both Copperbelt Police Commissioner Joyce Kasosa and Kitwe City Council spokesperson Dorothy Sampa.
A similar accident was reported in Kitwe’s Racecourse Township, where a 34-year-old mother and her daughter died.
“We received a phone call yesterday about a tragic accident involving two people engaged in illegal mining of sand who were buried alive after the trench they were mining from caved in on them. When our fire brigade team got there, they found one had already died while his colleague was exhumed alive and rushed to hospital,” Ms Sampa said.
She appealed to members of the public to desist from engaging in illegal digging of sand where they risked their lives.
Another accident claimed the life of an unidentified man believed to be aged between 25 and 30 after he was electrocuted while allegedly tampering with an 11 kilovolts Zesco transformer in Chingola.
Ms Kasosa said the man was found dead between 02:00 and 06:00 hours at sub-station number 266 in Central Riverside area.
“An unknown man has been electrocuted after he wanted to steal live copper cable from an 11Kv transformer. He managed to cut the wire but unfortunately he got electrocuted,” she said.
Ms Kasosa said a cutter, ladder and two knives were found at the scene of the accident.
Pilizi chizungu.Yaba.
Why call the fire brigade when a pit has collapsed ?
Very backwards is zambia, backwards
Thanks
Mushota,
You pretend to live in Scotland, when you don’t. If you lived in Scotland you wouldn’t say that about calling the fire brigade.
Mushota,
In such a case you call the fire brigade. Are you living on another planet? Who would have you called yourself??? The police?
“Kitwe man buried arrive in a sandy quarry accident”
who edits these titles at Lusaka Times and is there a way the can make correction later on like we do on facebook????????????
Illiterate president and halfbaked journalism “graduates” will always “arrive” to embarrass zambians and our poor education system.
Ba LT please be serious with your editing team
LT does not know what you are talking about.. “arrive” means alive” in Zambian english
that’s what happens when you hire editors willing to work for food..
These are the only jobs available in PF era where one is employed at his own risk and burried alive.I guess this is another PF policy of extending graveyards where one burries himself.Mor jobs,Mor money in your pockets,lower taxes and no cost for coffins.Pabwato!!