Month: February 2017 Posts

Falling wall kills boy, 8

Feb 23, 2017 Bright Malenga 27 &

A boy aged eight has died while his 12-year-old sister has been admitted to St. Gabriel Mission Hospital at Namitete after a part of their house in Mchinji fell on them on Wednesday. Confirming the… ...

Four Mchinji schools vandalised in two months

Feb 23, 2017 Bright Malenga 9 &

Four secondary schools in Mchinji have been vandalised by students since the start of the current school term, something authorities have described as worrying. The development has worried various stakeholders in the district including police… ...

Chief rapes epileptic girl

Feb 22, 2017 Bright Malenga 27 &

Village Headman Kaombe of Mchinji is in police custody for raping a 15 year-old epileptic girl in the district. Mchinji Police Spokesperson Kaitano Lubrino told Malawi24 that on the day of the rape the mother… ...

Malawian boy comes back from the dead: two Families fight over him

Feb 16, 2017 Bright Malenga 210 &

Two unrelated families in Mchinji are in a tug of war over a sixteen-year-old boy identified as Michael Katugwa who has risen from the dead ten years after his death. Village headman Sitima of traditional… ...

Student drowns in dam in Mchinji

Feb 09, 2017 Bright Malenga 29 &

A form one student from Takondwa Community Day Secondary School in Mchinji has died after drowning in a dam. Confirming the development to Malawi24, Mchinji police spokesperson Kaitano Lubrino said that the young man Joseph… ...

Men arrested for blocking burial

Feb 02, 2017 Bright Malenga 5 &

Police in Mchinji are keeping in custody three men for blocking the burial ceremony of a woman over chieftaincy wrangles, Malawi24 has learnt. Mchinji Police spokesperson Kaitano Lubrino told Malawi24 that Police established that one… ...

Man hit by train while sleeping on tracks

Jan 31, 2017 Luke Bisani 0 &

An unidentified man has died in Mchinji district after he was run over by a train, Malawi24 has learnt. According to police, the man is reported to have fallen asleep on the railway tracks in… ...