Investigators are probing the cause of fire that has gutted the house of Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Bright Msaka in eastern town of Liwonde, Machinga District. Msaka was not in the house as he lives in Lilongwe and leased out the property to a tenant. Fire brigades rushed to the scene in the early […]
Fire has razed down one of Mangochi District Hospital stores blocks, located near the administration block, authorities have confirmed. The fire is suspected to have been started by ground workers who were burning waste near the building on Thursday around 11:30am, according to acting Director of Health and Social Services for Mangochi District Council, Dr. […]
Mulanje View Motel has been gutted down by fire which started at around 10:00 am on Wednesday until 3:00 in the afternoon when it was put out. The delay to put out the fire was due to lack of a fire fighting engine and skilled fire fighters in the district. According to Mulanje Police Station […]
Malawi police has brushed aside reports that the fire that has gutted Thuchira Bridge was caused by a mentally disturbed person who had set fire under the bridge to warm himself. People around the area where the bridge has been burnt said a mentally challenged person sleeps underneath the bridge and usually uses fire to […]
Fire has razed down Chipiku stores wholesale in Kasungu as looters took advantage of the situation to loot goods in the adjacent Chipiku local shop. All the goods and property in the wholesale shop has been gutted by the raging fire so too the building. However, the nearby just opened Chipiku local shop was not […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) Offices in Thyolo were on Wednesday gutted down by fire, burning to ashes property worth millions of kwacha. According to MTL Head of Operations, Fredrick Mswayo, the fire started at around 12:00 noon on Wednesday and destroyed almost all communication equipment inside the building including data and voice gadgets. Nswayo could […]
Fire has shattered part of KuChawe Inn, a subsidiary of Sunbird Hotels, in the former capital Zomba and has affected mostly the kitchen. KuChawe Inn manager, Sylvester Mtambo, confirmed that the fire began around 1 am and could not say what caused it. “So far I can say everything in the kitchen has been destroyed,” […]
Property investment company MPICO says it is investigating the cause of the fire that occurred at one of its portfolios – Tikwere House in Lilongwe’s City Centre on Monday, January 21 2019. According to a statement issued by the company’s management and made available to Nyasa Times, the fire occurred in one of the rooms […]
Fire has gutted an office in Tikwere House on the floor which Department of Water and Irrigation occupies in City Centre, Lilongwe but the city council’s fire brigade came in time to extinguish it. The department through its director of human resource, James Magwira and Lilongwe City Council have indicated an electrical fault as the […]
Beleaguered major tobacco company AHL Group, caught up in a K44 billion government bail-out scandal, had its warehouse for gutted by mysterious fire at Kanengo Industrial Site in Lilongwe on Saturday afternoon. The fire is believed to have been ‘organised’ by AHL Group bosses as the rope is tighten close on their necks following revelations […]
A house which is occupied by Minister of Information and Communications Technology Henry Mussa in Area 10 residential area of Lilongwe has been gutted by suspicious fire and a brand new ministerial Toyota VXL worthy millions of kwachas has been destroyed. The fire started Wednesday morning. There were no reports of injuries, but the loss of property including […]
Fire gutted down Rumphi Secondary School library during the early hours of Sunday destroying books valued at K1.5 million donated by the school’s alumni among other damages, Deputy Head teacher, Edward Luhanga confirmed the development. “Around 2 am, we were awakened by our security people and some teachers who came to inform us that fire […]
Students and teachers at Chibavi Community Day Secondary School in the city of Mzuzu were on Friday drilled in fire fighting skills by a fire expert from Afro General Dealers, who also works with the Civil Aviation, at the invitation of Plem Construction Limited. Plem Construction Limited has just finished erecting new and modern structures […]
A South African fire forensic team that was hired to investigate the cause of fire which gutted Nico House in Blantyre a few weeks ago say the fire was caused by an electrical fault. This puts to rest allegations that the fire was an arson by some staff to conceal theft of huge sums of […]
Barely three days after fire gutted Nico Offices in Blantyre, Balaka Youth Net and Counseling (YONECO) offices caught fire during the wee hours of Monday. According to Balaka Police Publicist, Precious Makuta, it is not yet known as to what caused the infernal. He said, “We received a report from Jacob Phiri who is Yoneco’s […]
Officials at insurance company, National Insurance Company (Nico) say they are counting the cost of the fire which gutted most part of the third floor of the Nico House in Blantyre City on Friday. Fire fighters managed to put off the fierce fire on upmarket building in the heart of the commercial city, Blantyre. Nico […]
Blantyre City Council fire brigade were tackling a fire in Nico House in Blantyre City on Friday. The cause of the fire is not yet known but an employee of Nico says there’re renovations at NBS bank which is also housed in Nico House. The fire started from third floor. Everyone was evacuated from Nico House […]
Bush fire suspected to be caused by mice hunters has razed down property worth over K15 million belonging to Kwidu Lodge a tourism site in Mchinji on Tuesday September 18 2018, Malawi police have confirmed. According to lodge owner, human rights activist Charles Kasambala the harmful bush fire caught one of the rooms at the […]