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4 arrested for smuggling drugs in coffin

Police have arrested four cross-border transporters who allegedly attempted to smuggle drugs worth US$25,000 through Beitbridge Border Post using a coffin.The suspects, identified as Charles Bhebhe (30) of Lobengula West, Bulawayo; James S…

Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 15:45hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter

3 arrested for smuggling firearms and drugs in coffin

THREE men who tried to smuggle firearms and drugs into the country under the guise of repatriating the body of a dead person have been arrested by police in Beitbridge.Mehluli Nkomo (35), Brendon Dube (28) and Wellington Ndlovu (34) were a…

Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Child's coffin exhumed from grave, corpse unaccounted for

A Chigodora family is in hot soup after it discreetly reburied its six-year-old child's empty coffin following the vandalisation of the grave, coffin and body.Three years down the line, the whereabouts of the corpse that was dug up soon af…

Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Dead' woman (76) found breathing in coffin

Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.She was placed in a coffin and taken …

Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Woman buried in two coffins as her body kept ballooning

EVER thought of being buried in two coffins?Bereaved family members and friends of a Tsholotsho woman who was killed by her stepson last week had a torrid time at the mortuary as the body, which was already in a decomposing state, could no…

Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The final nail in Zimbabwe's coffin

Despite the government's last-minute hesitation, the Reserve Bank has announced that it is to release its monopoly money on Monday - widely seen as the final nail in the coffin of the Zimbabwean economy.Human rights lawyer Irene Petras sai…

Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 16:34hrs | | by ZimVigil

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Search / Coffin

4 arrested for smuggling drugs in coffin

3 arrested for smuggling firearms and drugs in coffin

Child's coffin exhumed from grave, corpse unaccounted for

'Dead' woman (76) found breathing in coffin

Woman buried in two coffins as her body kept ballooning

The final nail in Zimbabwe's coffin

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