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49 killed as heavy rains wreak havoc
FORTY-NINE people have been killed in extreme weather incidents that have been recorded since the start of the rainy season, with the authorities forecasting more heavy rains across the country until ...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 09:45hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Police recover bodies of 2 men who drowned at Matopo school dam
Police have recovered the bodies of two men who drowned at Matopo Mission Dam on January 24.The men, who have not been named, had been engaged by the school to carry out repairs to dormitories...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 19:01hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Bodies of Chinese couple missing since 2020 retrieved from Harare dam
The search for a missing Chinese couple, Lei Ding and Chi Lifen, which began in 2020, took a grim turn when police divers discovered two bodies concealed inside drums in an Eastview dam in Harare on T...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
2 men drown saving goat from 23-meter-deep well
Two men died during a botched attempt to rescue a goat which fell into a 23-meter deep well in Dundubala village in Insuza, police said on Tuesday.Themba Nyathi, 48, of Dundubala and Mabutho S...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Security guard drowns while poaching fish
A 33-YEAR-OLD Mazowe Henderson Research security guard drowned yesterday at Mazowe dam where he was allegedly caught poaching fish by Zimbabwe National Parks (ZimParks) officials.Martin Chisim...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:54hrs | 35 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Floods alert as rivers rise
TSHOLOTSHO District is on high alert for floods as water levels in the Gwayi and Khami rivers are rising at an alarming speed. With the Meteorological Services Department predicting more rains...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swept away car sighted, 6 feared dead
Six people, including the driver, are feared dead after a Toyota Hilux double cab vehicle was swept off a flooded bridge on Gweru River along the Gweru-Matobo Road yesterday morning. The autho...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt warns on flooded rivers
Government yesterday warned people against crossing flooded rivers following a number of incidents of people being swept away or marooned. In a statement, Local Government and Public Works Act...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Colliery rescuers retrieve snake victim's body
RESCUERS from Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) yesterday used hooks to finally fish out the body of a Lupane man who was allegedly fatally bitten by a snake in a well last Wednesday. The...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Deadly snake in 45 metre well derails efforts to retrieve corpse
A SNAKE that allegedly fatally bit a 25-year-old man from Lupane in a 45-metre deep well on Wednesday last week has kept rescuers at bay as everyone is afraid to enter the well and retrieve the body. ...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Missing Bulawayo man found dead in Khami River
THE body of a Bulawayo man who was reported missing more than a week ago has been found floating in Khami dam.The police Sub-Aqua Unit from Fairbridge retrieved the body on Wednesday morning....Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Four illegal diamond miners drown in Chiadzwa
FOUR illegal diamond panners who trespassed into the protected Chiadzwa diamond fields drowned in a dam on Monday night following a chase by Zimbabwe Consolidate Diamond Company (Pvt) Ltd (ZCDC) secur...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 10:21hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Lets complement Government effort in assisting flood victims
Government through the Civil Protection Unit (CPU) and other stakeholders is commendably doing well in responding to floods and other related disasters, considering the liquidity challenges the countr...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 12:54hrs | 4 | by Tendai Guta
Bulawayo-Masvingo Highway closed to traffic
THE Government will soon airlift aid to stranded communities after widespread flooding left one person dead, extensively damaged roads and destroyed bridges, leaving parts of the country isolated....Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rains trigger state of disaster
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate yesterday recommended that a state of disaster be declared in the country's southern provinces where one person was killed, while hundreds were maroo...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
4 pupils die in water mishaps
FIVE people, including four school children, drowned in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in separate incidents between Friday last week and Sunday.In the first incident, five pupils wer...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
7-ton truck swept away: 2 feared dead
TWO people, one of them a teacher, are feared dead while nine others narrowly escaped death when a truck they were travelling in was swept away by a flooded river in Lupane District.The in...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Student drowns in Zambezi River attemping to save sinking lover
A frantic effort to rescue a drowning girlfriend in the mighty Zambezi River in Binga tur...Published: 23 Dec 2016 at 04:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
River claims 19th teacher . . . as couple drowns
A MBERENGWA teacher and his wife drowned after the car which they were travelling in was swept away at a flooded bridge at a river now commonly known as Gwamateacher following incessant rains on Thurs...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Three family members drown on Christmas Day
Three members of the same family drowned on Christmas Day at Whitewaters dam a few kilometers outside the city of Gweru.The three; Anesu, Blessed and Kudzai Mundondo, all aged 19, are of numbe...Published: 26 Dec 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Engineer drowns after drunken swim
A POPULAR Gweru socialite drowned in a river near Chachacha Business Centre in Shurugwi at a braai party with friends.Lewis Matizha, who is also an engineering contractor with Sandvik Engineer...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man presumed to be taken by mermaid, body found
POLICE in Rusape - with the aid of their sub-aqua unit - late Friday recovered the body of a 25-year-old man who had gone missing for a week and was presumed to have been taken by a mermaid in Rusap...Published: 30 May 2014 at 11:24hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter
Truck driver drowns in Zambezi River
A South African truck driver recently drowned while swimming in the Zambezi River in Chirundu. Kele Lawrence Maseko (22) went to take a bath with his colleague along the banks of the Zambezi R...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 03:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man drowns trying to retrieve springbok at a dam
A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Fort Rixon in Insiza District drowned at a dam in Debshan Ranch while trying to retrieve a springbok he and his two colleagues had killed.Matabeleland South provincial...Published: 20 Aug 2013 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso player drowns in a river
Highlanders Under-14 juniors player Nkosenhle Mwamba drowned in a river while attempting to swim with his schoolmates from Hlangabeza High School in Nkayi last Wednesday.His body was only retr...Published: 30 Jan 2013 at 05:29hrs | | by Sports Reporter
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