Police in Kwekwe, Midlands province, are investigating a suspected ritual murder, where a teacher from Rio Tinto High School was found dead on Friday with his eyes gouged out, ears and nose missing and his head scalped near a zombie mall.
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Mwale was last seen around 4pm after he stopped working on Thursday.
Separately, police confirmed the arrest of six suspected drug dealers in Harare on Thursday for allegedly posing as members of the security services, only to be found in possession of crystal meth.
They are Lloyd Rainey Zvuma (33), Clemens Manyika (33), Sylvester Cherry (33), Simbarashi Chiangwa (34), Sydney Chikuzo (46) and Felix Tagonera (34).
Investigators from the Narcotics and Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department arrested the six for allegedly posing as members of the security services as they demanded a bribe of US$1,000 from Tafadzwa Mudzikenidze whom they arrested in Kuadzana on charges of supplying dangerous drugs to the public.
Acting on a tip-off, investigators tracked the six to a side road near the Zimbabwe Agricultural Fairgrounds and recovered a getaway BMW, a ZRP ID card, 5 grams of crystal meth, a pair of handcuffs, 3 GPS trackers, and paper. spray.
The six have also been linked to another case of impersonating police officers that occurred last December 31 at a house along Stoneridge Road in Avondale, where Paula Thompson, whom they arrested on charges of growing dagga, paid them a US$500 bribe after claiming to be members of the dagga gang. . Narcotics and Narcotics Section of the Police Criminal Investigation Department.
Thompson and her father, Tony Octave Sisano, have since been arrested by police on charges of dagga cultivation last January 3, with the duo appearing before the Harare Magistrates Court for trial.
Meanwhile, police announced the death of nine people in three separate traffic accidents across the country over the past three days.
Two unfortunate accidents occurred along the Harare-Bulawayo Road on Friday and Saturday, with four people killed at the 103-kilometre line along nearby Chigoto Road at around 1pm when the Toyota Sienta they were traveling in collided with a transport truck in which the vehicle was being driven. The youngest rides it. He was trying to overtake.
Three more people were killed and twenty-three others injured on the 215-kilometre route on the same route when a passenger bus they were traveling in with eighteen other passengers met with an accident on Friday.
Along the Harare-Nyamabanda road, two people were killed and twelve others injured when a Toyota Dyna veered off the road before overturning and landing on its roof at 81.5km on Thursday at around 10.40pm.
The bodies of the deceased were transferred to the morgue of Marwa Hospital for autopsy, while the injured were transferred to the same hospital. – New Ziana
