Cops weep as they retrieve charred bodies of brutal murder victims

Unknown assailants allegedly brutally cut off a Mberengwa man's limbs with an axe before putting him into a hut with his screaming wife and setting it on fire.

Crime hardened police officers were moved to tears and some of them threw up as they pulled the charred bodies of Isaac Nkomo and his wife only identified as MaSibanda from the hut at Mataga Village on Wednesday.

The attackers that are still at large are suspected to have tied Nkomo to a bed before hacking off his hand a leg.

The limbs were recovered badly burned together with the bodies in the hut.

Police officers said the sheer brutality of the murder was a cause for concern.

"I can positively say I have never seen such brutality. I have been to countless crime scenes that still haunt me when I sleep, but this one has to be the most cruelly committed murder I have ever come across. This has to the work of a conscienceless mad person or people who should not be roaming free in society," said an officer.

Officers close to investigations reported that their colleagues vomited at the sickening sight.

"No one deserves to die like this and we will not rest until we catch the culprits," said an officer.
Relatives said the couple's young children who sleep in a separate hut heard their mother screaming on Tuesday night at about 11 pm., pleading to be let go.

"The two children, the older one aged eight, said they heard their mother pleading with someone and later screaming to be let go. Their uncle who lives at a nearby homestead heard the commotion but by the time he arrived at the scene, the hut had caved in and they were both dead. Villagers called the police who retrieved the bodies the following morning.

Villagers told Bulawayo24 News that they were living in fear because the killers had not yet been caught.
They said Nkomo was a respected man in the area adding if anyone had the guts to kill him in that manner, there was nothing to stop the murderer(s) from striking again.
The bodies were taken to Mpilo Central Hospital mortuary for a post mortem today.

Official comment could not be obtained from the police.