A six-year-old girl, Nyuma Labson, drowned in Chibwazi River barely four days after another 5 year-old drowned.
The incident occurred on 7 February 2024 at around 14:00 hours in Mkanika Village.
On this fateful day, Nyuma (now deceased), along with her sister, went to the river to wash clothes. Whilst there, Nyuma left her sister and joined the other four children to swim as usual at a distance of about 100 metres away from where they were washing clothes.
Nyuma went to a deep place and failed to swim and eventually ended up drowning.Her sister shouted for help, where people responded quickly to rescue her but to no avail.
Police officers along with a medical team visited the scene and after postmortem, it was revealed that death was due to suffocation secondary to drowning.
Nyuma Labson,hailed from Mkanika village in Traditional Authority Chilooko in Ntchisi.
In a related development, an unknown man believed to be in his late 40’s has been found dead at Ntchisi trading centre.
The man was only known as “A biggie” who used to sleep anywhere. He was found lying lifeless in the morning of 8th February behind one of the drinking joints. Cause of death is yet to be known.
Police is therefore appealing to the public whosoever have information about the said person to inform his relatives for identification.
