Two Kids Burnt To Death
25 February 2016
Mberengwa |A hut caught fire while two minor siblings were sleeping inside, and they were burnt to death.
The mother of the two kids who is a teenager allegedly left a candle burning in their bedroom hut. This incident happened last week on Tuesday around 9PM.
Reports are that 19 -year old Nelia Chinhamo of Mutumburi village, Chief Chingoma in Mberengwa, allegedly left her two small children in her bedroom hut after placing a candle on top of radio speaker and went to Zvavachari Dam for fishing. While she was away the hut caught fire and started burning.
The mother of the two kids who is a teenager allegedly left a candle burning in their bedroom hut. This incident happened last week on Tuesday around 9PM.
Reports are that 19 -year old Nelia Chinhamo of Mutumburi village, Chief Chingoma in Mberengwa, allegedly left her two small children in her bedroom hut after placing a candle on top of radio speaker and went to Zvavachari Dam for fishing. While she was away the hut caught fire and started burning.
National Police Spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said the two children, Clayton Shiri who was nineteen months and Ndazvida Chinhamo, whose age was not given, were burnt beyond recognition. He said Chinhamo left the children sleeping and went fishing in the company of Kudzai Matcheza, 60, of the same village.
They were fishing at Zvavachari dam which is about 500 metres away from her homestead.
“When she was still at the dam, she heard people shouting at the top of their voices and she discovered that her homestead was on fire,” said the police spokesperson.
Chief Supt Nyathi said Chinhamo rushed back home found her children already dead while villagers fought to put out the fire.