At least four people have been injured when an Intercape bus they were travelling in from Blantyre to Johannesburg hit a stationed track at Mwanza Boma near Puma Filling Station about 150 metres away from Mwanza Police Road Block at around 10:00 am on Wednesday. This reporter saw the bus got smashed the whole front […]
Two female pedestrians and a nine months old baby have died on Saturday morning after they were hit by a motor vehicle at Mulangeni Trading Centre in Ntcheu. Henry Kandoje, age not advised, of Makhonja village, Traditional Authority Nazombe, Phalombe, was driving a Toyota Vitz registration number LA 9443, from Ntcheu direction heading Dedza along […]
A 35 year old pedal cyclist has been confirmed dead after he was hit on Monday by a motor vehicle which is yet to be traced at Mapanga along Limbe -Zomba Road. Limbe Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Widson Nhlane, told said the victim, Stephano Katemba, was going towards Limbe direction when he was hit […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba, on Saturday night survived a road accident with minor injuries when a personal vehicle he was travelling from direction of Salima hit a pothole and overturned, the police said. The accident happened close to Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi warehouse when Matemba’s Nissan Dualis hit a pothole […]
Three Malawians and four Mozambicans have died at Agabowa area in Tsangano district in Mozambique in an accident which occurred on Monday. According to Dedza Police spokesperson Edward Kadango the Malawian deceased are Esther Khani Chilenje aged 34 from Nkhangayawala Village, T/A in Salima, Mitchell Chilenje of Kasalika Village in T/A Kaomba in Kasungu and […]
Two people seriously injured after a saloon Nissan Tilda lost control and hit Kabaza operator and failed to stop until it hit on coming Bongo Minibus before swerving towards the road side. According to an eye witness,the Nissan Tiida driver was speeding coming from Kanengo side. The accident took place at Lilongwe Teachers Training College […]
A nine year old pupil of Mictina Private School in Blantyre died on Tuesday after being hit by a vehicle along Limbe-Manje Road at Mango stageon the way to school. Limbe Police Assistant Public Relations Officer (PRO), Widson Nhlane said the deceased, Victor Chagunda was in Standard 3. “The motor vehicle registration number MJ 9601 […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre are keeping in custody a 36 year old man for reckless driving which caused the death of three people in Blantyre. According to Blantyre Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Augustus Nkhwazi, the suspect Lee Mlele was driving a motor vehicle Registration number BR 4482 Nissan Navara double cabin pick up from Kameza round […]
Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi, says the ministry will soon start constructing accident emergency care units in all district hospitals along the M1 road and some central hospitals in the country. Muluzi disclosed this in an interview when he visited Ntcheu District Hospital recently to appreciate the extent of damage caused by fire which gutted […]
Six people died and five others got injured Saturday when a freightliner truck they were travelling in overturned near elephant rock on the M1 Road in Mzimba District around 3 pm. Mzimba Police publicist Peter Botha said the injured were rushed to Mzuzu Central Hospital. He said the truck, registration number NA7605/LA1281, carried several bags […]
A speeding lorry ran over a 25 year-old man with disability to death on Friday afternoon at Mangochi Traffic Lights junction along the Mangochi – Liwonde Road, police have confirmed. Eyewitnesses said before the accident, Saladi Kambulire, the deceased, was cycling on his tricycle from the direction of M’baluku and he had just joined the […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre have recorded a 40% decrease in road accidents ov during this year’s Christmas and Boxing Day holiday celebrations this years. Police have registered three road accidents a decrease from 5 road accidents recorded over the same period in 2016. Of the reported cases this year, two were minor. Two people sustained […]
The Blantyre First Grade Magistrate Court Thursday convicted and sentenced a min bus driver to MK50 000 fine in default serve six months imprisonment with hard labour for causing death by reckless driving. Accused Christopher Ntengula 34 of Mtambo village T/A Mulumbe in Zomba, on December 10th 2017 was driving a motor vehicle Registration number NE 4392 […]
Malawi Police have confirmed that three people have died while nine others are fighting for their lives after sustained serious injuries in a road accident involving a minibus at Mtengowanthenga in Mponela on Wednesday morning. Mponela Police Public Relations Officer, Kondwani Kandiado, confirmed the accident and says the minibus was travelling from Karonga to Lilongwe. […]
Another horror road accident has been recorded at Mtengowanthenga in Lilongwe with eye witnesses saying a minibus driver was over speeding and caused grievous injuries to the passengers as Police are yet to confirm is there has been any death. The accident was so bad that so many people including women were seen being evacuated […]
A 43 year old man and unidentified woman have died in Lilongwe after they were involved in a fatal accident which occured along Chendawaka Road in Area 25, Lilongwe over the weekend. Malawi Police identified one of the deceased as James Msiska who was driving a Toyota Opa with registration number BR6337 and was coming […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika and the First Lady Dr Gertrude Mutharika have expressed great shock and sadness over the death of four students who died in a road accident at Nazipulu bridge near Ntakataka in Dedza district. The First Couple has since called upon all Malawians to join them in praying for the lives lost […]
Minister of Education Science and Technology, Bright Msaka, visited the survivors of the Dedza road accident involving students from Mzuzu University and Mzuzu Technical College at Dedza District Hospital around at 7 o’clock Sunday in the evening. The minister, who was accompanied by the Principal Secretary from the ministry, Justin Saidi, went to see the […]