A 30 year old man of Lusaka has committed suicide by poisoning himself and two children in a Lodge in Matero township.
Police say a worker at a named lodge in Matero Township reported that unknown adult male person aged between 30-35 years accompanied by two children a boy and a girl booked a room on Tuesday 19th March around 22:00 Hours.
“In the evening of 20thMarch, 2018 around 20:00hrs, the members of staff at the lodge noticed that the guests were not coming out despite knocking on the door several times. Then one of them peeped through the keyhole and saw the man gasping. It was at this point that they reported the matter to Matero Police Station,” Police Deputy Spokesman Godfrey Chilabi said.
“Upon arrival, police officers entered the room and found that the children were dead. Their father who was found gasping was rushed to the hospital where he later died. In the room, Police officers found three empty bottles of pesticide, torn documents and two cell phones submerged in water,” he said.
Mr Chilabi said from the initial findings so far, police suspect that the man administered some toxic pesticides on the children and later committed suicide.
“However,further investigation have been imstituted.The deceased have been identified by relatives as Joe Tembo aged 30 and his children Fernando a boy aged 3 and Shamie a girl aged 6 residents of Emmasdale in Lusaka,” he said.
The bodies are lying in the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Bloody coward…
That is what she wanted, she gets freedom.
Just a bad method used, so painful, maybe hanging is better, hhhjjjhm… I can’t do it either method.
These lodges just take money, someone should have inquired into to why a Zambian man would book into a lodge with children at night.
Why are people voting you down? He is a coward?
This is scary. Banamayo when you are on separation with your spouse and the man comes ati I want to see the children please resist. Don’t allow the man to take the children. These are the result.
He should have failed to manage a situation and opted to end his life. Love can not be understood by logical reasoning
such a coward.Even in death he has shown weakness
Better he died himself than Killing innocent children who could even been President of Zambia. But from the names its either the man is an Angolan or brazillian
You forget that you can t identity a Zambian by first name. They all have slave names. They also give their kids slave names
what z paining me z de lives of those beautiful children dey ddnt deserve an early death dere wil surely be missed by the friends at school,i dnt knw hw to describe de man who wud hv taken his own lyf ad leave de kids alone dey were nt de cause of dere parents misunderstanding
The mother of those children said something terrible to the man such that he couldn’t think of living. something like” Atase so imwe mumona kwati muli baume, after all aba tebana bobe, nshalefwayafye ukukweba. Nomba lekankwebe aba bana ba kwa boyfriend wandi. Ngolefwaya kaikulike.”
I’m not supporting anyone but that man is a coward ngawali ikuta chawama you kill your self than killing your children as a psychiatric nurse I understand your wife has a mental disorder but you were the crazy one, parents are killing their own children were are we going with this world