Ox-cart runs over baby

ANDREW MUKOMA writes A ONE year-six month old baby has died in Choma after being run over by an ox-cart under a tree in a maize field. According to police spokesperson, Esther Katongo, the baby, identified as Chipego Monde, was left sleeping by its mother who was harvesting the maize. The incident happened on Monday at Kayoba village in chief Cooma’s area around 10:30 hours. […]

Ox-cart runs over baby
ANDREW MUKOMA writes A ONE year-six month old baby has died in Choma after being run over by an ox-cart under a tree in a maize field. According to police spokesperson, Esther Katongo, the baby, identified as Chipego Monde, was left sleeping by its mother who was harvesting the maize. The incident happened on Monday at Kayoba village in chief Cooma’s area around 10:30 hours. “The incident happened when the ox- cart being controlled by MwakaMudenda aged 24 run over the juvenile victim Chipego Monde who was sleeping under a tree in a maize field when the mother aged 20 years of the same was harvesting maize. “The victim died on the way to Choma General Hospital and the Body is in Choma General Hospital awaiting post-mortem,” Ms Katongo said. In Livingstone, police have picked a body of an unidentified male adult in the bush of Mwandi compound.   The body was discovered on Monday 13:00 hours by a resident of Mwandi Extension.  Ms Katongo said police visited the scene of crime and inspected the body of a male adult believed to be aged between 40 and 45 years. She the body was in a decomposed state, hence Post mortem was expected to be conducted on site yesterday to determine the cause of the death. The Sun