A seven year-old girl in Chikwawa has died after being hit by a tipper along Thabwa-Fatima Road. The incident occurred on Friday September 28′, 2018 at Livunzu Primary School. The girl, identified as Tadala Kennedy was in Standard 2. “She succumbed to a tragic death after suddenly crossing to the right side of the road […]
Five people have died while three others sustained injuries after the vehicle they were traveling in overturned at Ndembwera area along Karonga-Chilumba M1 Road around 0200 hours Tuesday. Among the deceased persons, two are Malawians who have been identified as Sofa Kasumba Banda,50 years from Chipyinja village,Traditional Authority Masula in Lilongwe District and Mc Loud […]
Eight people have died in a single accident in Dedza involving a truck and lorry vehicles. Dedza police spokesperson Edward Kabango said the accident happened at Linthipe 1 after a mechanical fault on the lorry which forced it into the lane of the oncoming truck, hitting it and killing seven people from the truck on […]
Four people have died while six others escaped with different degrees of injuries at Liwonde in Machinga district after the vehicles they were travelling in were involved in a fatal road accident. The accident happened on 11th August, 2018 at Chabwera village, along Liwonde – Machinga road when the driver of a motor vehicle Toyota […]
What started as a normal operation at Kanengo Railway Station ended in tragedy when a locomotive hit to death the Station Master following a communication breakdown between him and the locomotive’s driver. Spokesperson for Kanengo Police, Salomy Zgambo Chibwana said the incident occurred on Tuesday around 15:00hrs and identified the deceased as Vincent Akim, aged 26. On […]
An eigh year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after being run over by a vehicle which was being driven his father at Chindindindi in Mzimba District. The deceased, Stanley Jere and his friends are said to have fallen off from an open vehicle which being driven by his father, Benson Jere. Confirming the accident, Mzimba Police […]
A Mozambican train belonging to Vale Logistics on Wednesday hit two children of the same family, leaving one of them with a crushed leg at Liwonde in Machinga. Confirming the incident to Nyasa Times, Machinga police spokesperson Davie Sulumba further said the children identified as Belita and Oliver Laudon aged 10 and four respectively met their fate […]
Malawi police has confirmed that the accident that occurred just outside Lilongwe City Mall (Game Complex) was due to a lorry brakes failing to function. Lilongwe Police spokesman Kingsley Dandaula said a lorry registration CK3680 driven by Billiat Kapola killed here pedestrians. He said the lorry plunged into another vehicle and killed two unidentified women […]
The First Grade Magistrate (FGM) court in Mchinji on Tuesday fined a 38year old driver, Harrison Kamadya K200,000 for causing death by reckless driving. State Prosecutor, Davie Kusamale told the court that Harrison, on June 19, 2018 was driving a motor vehicle, registration number MC 7, along Mchinji – Kasungu Road and upon reaching Mtanga […]
A Police move to cover up a fatal accident involving a ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) official in the central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu has been exposed after they issued an accident report purpoting the party official was driving the vehicle instead of his son who does not have a driving licence. One […]
Six women have died while eleven others have sustained various degree of injuries following two separate accidents which occurred on Friday along the Salima-Lilongwe road. According to police, the first accident occurred at around 0600hrs at Sapesa Trading Center locates in the area od TA Chitukula and it involved a minibus Toyota Haice reg No […]
Three people have died and two others are seriously injured in a rod accident involving a vehicle registration number BU 6216 Ford Ranger which was travelling from Ntcheu heading for Lilongwe and a motorcycle at Kapalamula Village near Umbwi Secondary School around 6pm on Monday . Dedza Police Public Relations Officer, Sub Inspector Edward Kabango, identified […]
A young boy has died this morning after he was hit by a motor vehicle while crossing the road at Manjawira Trading Centre along the Blantyre-Balaka M1. Henry Chizungu 29, of Josephy village, Traditional Authority Mulumbe, Zomba District, was driving a motor vehicle registration number CP 4150 Mazda Vellisa from the direction of Blantyre heading […]
A Tanzanian petrol tanker enroute to Malawi’s northern city of Mzuzu overturned at Chiweta Trading Centre in Rumphi killing one person and seriously injuring several people who had flocked to the tanker to steal fuel Wednesday evening. The deceased is yet to be identified, according to Sergeant Ziba of ChiwetaPolice Unit in the district. However, he said […]
A patient has died in an ambulance accident in Lilongwe on Wednesday when the speeding ambulance taking him to Kamuzu Central Hospital collided with another vehicle at Kanengo. Kanengo police spokesperson Labani Makalani confirmed that a patient died on arrival at Kamuzu Central Hospital and two other passengers inthe government ambulance, who were guardians to the patient, weretreated […]
A senior Malawi police officer has died after the vehicle he was travelling in overturned and caught fire at Mfulanjovu junction along Blantyre-Balaka M1 road. The incident occurred in the afternoon of Tuesday 10th April, 2018, and the deceased has been identified as Assistant Superitendent, Michael Kataya aged 51 of Dedza Police station. Kataya hailed […]
Six people died on Friday after a Freightliner heavy truck registration number CK 3103/ CK 4353 , when the driver failed to negotiate a corner due to overspeeding, causing the vehicle to swerve sideways and overturn at Luviri along Mzimba/Jenda M1 road and killing the pedestrians, police have confirmed. Police said the truck – which was […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier has died while others sustained serious injuries when a vehicle they were travelling in overturned at Njereza village along Ntcheu-Balaka M1 road on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Lance corpol Morton K. Mhango 35, of Kamgwamba village, Traditional Authority Chikulamayembe, Rumphi. He died on spot due to […]