Soldier tries to bomb shopping mall

A SOLDIER has been arrested after he went berserk and attempted to blow up a shopping complex in Queenspark West suburb, Bulawayo using dangerous explosives following an altercation with shop attendants.

According to media reports, Admire Mangeya sent shoppers, imbibers, vendors and workers at the shopping complex running for their lives at about 4PM on Tuesday after he set the explosives in protest over a spilt glass of beer.

Mangeya lost his marbles after one of them spilled his glass of beer while he was playing pool with friends.

He was immediately apprehended by the police who recovered the explosives.

Witnesses, who could not identify the type of explosives, said an army bomb squad told them that if they had detonated, they would have razed the entire complex.