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NRZ goods train catches fire
A National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) goods train ferrying coal from Hwange to Zambia caught fire earlier today at the Pandamatenga siding site, triggering an emergency response from local authorities...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 17:27hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Johannesburg to Harare bus catches fire along Masvingo-Harare highway
A Harare-bound bus caught fire about 5km before Mvuma along the Masvingo-Harare highway today. No injuries were recorded but goods worth thousands of dollars were destroyed. The bus wa...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 17:34hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Inter Africa bus catches fire on Mutare-Masvingo road
Forty people are fortunate to be alive after escaping unharmed when an Inter Africa Bus caught fire along the Mutare-Masvingo highway early Tuesday morning.Miraculously, the pre-dawn fire resu...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bus catches fire near Victoria Falls, passengers escape unharmed
On Monday, more than 70 passengers had a narrow escape from a life-threatening situation as a Stallion Cruise bus bound for Victoria Falls suddenly erupted in flames near the airport. The bus, origina...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Garbage truck catches fire
A fire tender extinguishes a Karoi Town Council refuse truck that caught fire in the Central business districtTHERE was drama in Karoi town's central business district when a Karoi Town Counci...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bus catches fire
Forty-three passengers including learners on their way to school, yesterday escaped death by a whisker after an Inter Africa bus caught fire near Battlefields between Kwekwe and Kadoma. Most of the ba...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
18 passengers cheat death as Harare-bound bus catches fire
Eighteen passengers early today cheated death after a Harare-bound BM Transport bus they were travelling on caught fire on the outskirts of Masvingo city along the Harare-Masvingo highway.All ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Honda Fit catches fire two burnt beyond recognition
Two people were burnt beyond recognition on Monday after a Honda Fit they were travelling in hit a tree at three-kilometre peg along Mazowe -Jumbo highway.Mashonaland Central deputy police spo...Published: 12 May 2021 at 20:09hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman 'strangles' stepson to death
A Redcliff woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old stepson to death and locked his eight-year-old sister in a bedroom that she tried to set on fire so that she could inherit her husband's house. ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious fires terrorise families
A SERIES of mysterious fires have reportedly razed three homesteads belonging to three related families in Lupane, forcing them to flee and seek refuge in a bush. The bizarre incidents are tak...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station catches fire
A fire has broken out at the ZPC Hwange Power Station in what could be a major blow to the country's power situation.Efforts to get a comment from ZESA have been fruitless as the power utility...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
One person injured as refueling car catches fire
A two- tonne truck was reduced to a shell after it caught fire at a service station in Zvishavane on Monday night.The driver Mr John Mhike sustained minor burns and was discharged from hospita...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Malayitsha truck catches fire
A Zimbabwe registered truck believed to be carrying goods from South Africa reportedly caught fire along the highway before Beitbridge. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa scared of being eaten by protests: run Mnangagwa run!
Not too long ago, protests would not subdue a dictator. Not now! Second only to military coups in deposing dictactors, protests have developed huge teeth that can crush a dictator to nothing in a matt...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Israel Dube
Getaway car catches fire
TWO suspected copper cable thieves were recently arrested after their getaway car caught fire during a high-speed chase along Harare-Nyamapanda Road. The two were fleeing the police after stea...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe engine catches fire during flight from OR Tambo, lands safely
An Air Zimbabwe plane experienced "a malfunction" in one of its engines causing a brief fire on Sunday evening from OR Tambo International Airport to Harare.The airline confirmed that a Boeing...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 people escape death after house catches fire
TEN people among them four minors escaped death by a whisker when a house they were sleeping in caught fire in Tshithaudze Suburb in Beitbridge on Wednesday morning. According to Beitbridge Mu...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Miss Africa 2018's hair catches fire as she is crowned
Miss Congo, Dorcas Kasinde, won the Miss Africa 2018 beauty pageant, but her crowning moment didn't go as planned when her hair caught fire onstage. The annual pageant was held in Cross River ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bus catches fire, 40 feared dead?
Unconfirmed reports claim that a Brooklyn bus which plies the Zvishavane to Musina via Filabusi was burnet to ashes near West Nicholson yesterday evening around 2300hrs while headed towards Musina. ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: City Liner bus catches fire
A City Liner bus travelling from Johannesburg reportedly caught fire near just after Beitbridge tollgate towards Masvingo on Monday morning, a source told Bulawayo24.com via WhatsApp.It is unc...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 12:15hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
5-yr-old girl dies as fuel dealer's house catches fire
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl died while two other people were severely burnt when their house, which was allegedly used to store petrol for resale, caught fire in Beitbridge on Monday.The toddler, who...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer's house catches fire
A five year old girl died while two other people were severely burnt when their house, alleged to have been used as an illegal filling station, caught fire on Monday afternoon. The minor reportedly su...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare City dumpsite catches fire, again
Harare City Council's Golden Quarry dumpsite caught fire on Tuesday night in a suspected case of arson. The city has since reported the alleged culprits to the police. When reporters visited t...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man's bedroom hut catches fire, suffocates to death
A 55-YEAR-OLD Mangwe man suffocated after his bedroom hut caught fire while he was asleep.Chief Wasi said Elliot Moyo from Ngwanyana area died on Monday morning at around 7AM. He said Moyo, wh...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Safeguard urges activation of fire and medical emergency panic buttons
The fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in London recently, resulting in the tragic deaths of at least 80 people and rendering hundreds homeless, has brought into sharp focus the devastating effect that...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 16:04hrs | | by Agencies
BREAKING: Mpopoma Zesa Sub Station catches fire
Mpopoma Zesa Sub Station caught fire this afternoon, former ZBC presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda broadcasted the incident live on Facebook. The footage shows the Fire brigade using a leaking hose...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rainbow Hotel catches fire, three people rushed to hospital
Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo reportedly caught fire resulting in three people getting injured.The fire is said to have started at the basement of the facility after an electrical fault.Co...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 13:55hrs | | by Alice Dube
2nd replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 catches fire
A second replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device, deemed safe by the company, has caught fire in the US, US media report.Samsung has been forced to issue new models of the smartphone followin...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 21:32hrs | 26 | by Tech Reporter
Mugabe's hilarious quotes
"Yes, I was dead. It's true I was dead. I resurrected""I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once."For a long time, even as the Western world...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 20:47hrs | 3 | by online
Tenant's under-garments disappear, bed mysteriously catches fire in haunted house
With stones and bricks pelting them every now and then and water mysteriously springing from underneath their beds, Ms Patricia Matari and her mother do not even know what to expect next in their ...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tenant's under-garments disappear, bed mysteriously catches fire in 'haunted house'
With stones and bricks pelting them every now and then and water mysteriously springing from underneath their beds, Ms Patricia Matari and her mother do not even know what to expect next in their hous...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Ferry carrying 466 passengers catches fire off Greece
Athens - A car ferry carrying 466 passengers and crew caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy and its captain ordered its evacuation, coast guard officials said on Sunday.The Norman Atl...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
CBZ branch catches fire
CBZ Gokwe South branch was engulfed by a raging inferno this Wednesday afternoon and they are fears that the fire could have caused extensive damage to property.According to sources, furniture...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Granny (77) burnt to death as hut catches fire
A woman from Bikita's Chief Marozva communal lands in Masvingo was allegedly burnt to death while seated in her kitchen hut, police confirmed yesterday. Masvingo police spokesperson Inspector...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco bus catches fire 10 passengers injured
A total of 10 passengers were injured, three of them seriously, when passengers broke windows and jumped out of a burning bus that was going down the slope without the driver at Esigodini yesterday....Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Intercape bus catches fire in Zimbabwe - photo
An Intercape bus caught fire along Rotten Row in Harare yesterday. Fortunately, there were no p...Published: 16 Aug 2012 at 07:06hrs | 10 | by Staff photographer
Woman catches fire during surgery
Kim Grice, 29 of Holt, Fla., was having three cysts removed from her head at a hospital in Crestview, Fla., on Tuesday when a flash fire erupted, torching her face and neck, family members told t...Published: 03 Dec 2011 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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