Satanist scare hits Bulawayo suburb

A Satanist scare has hit the suburb of Cowdry Park in Bulawayo. This scare comes after the death of a seven-year-old boy who drowned while on an outing with friends.

Sibusiwe Mbambo, the mother of the diceased said when Siphiwumuzi Ndlovu drowned his family discovered that he was donning a necklace, which they struggled to remove.

"I have known my son for the past seven years and he never had this necklace that we found around his neck and the powers that were in this necklace showed that my son had been killed by Satanists," she said.

Mbambo said the Ndlovu family was suspecting that their son was given the necklace by someone who had an aim of killing him.

"As a family we have been consulting at different places and we have been told that my son was killed by Satanists who gave him that necklace.

Mbambo sais the residents who removed her son's body from the well struggled as the body mysteriously kept disappearing.

"The first people to have arrived at the scene struggled in getting the body out of the well. I grew up in the rural areas and every person who drowns will be having some water in his tummy but for my son it was a different issue," she added.

Mbambo went on to say there were two girls who were watching the removal of the body from a distant, who immediately ran away when they were called.

"If those two girls were clean why did they not attend the scene like other people? Instead they decided to run away leaving everyone in question on why they decided to do that," she said.

The boy's mother said her family took the necklace for further consultations with prophets and traditional healers on the cause of the death of their son. Collet Ndlovu, the ward councilor for the area, confirmed the death.

"There was an incident which occured of a young boy who drowned and it seems the incident occurred when the boys had gone out playing," he said.