At least two houses have been burnt by accidental fire in Chilomoni and Ndirande townships where property worthy undisclosed amount of money has been destroyed. On Wednesday September 5, 2018 at about 1400 hours, as reported by Matthews Mdedza 23 of Masanjala village traditional authority Kadewere in Chiradzulu, fire emerged from a cooker. Mdedza who […]
Malawi Bureau of Standards is counting the cost of the damage caused by fire on Thursday. Officials from the bureau were reluctant to comment but the director general Devlin Chikazinga said the organization was still calculating the cost of the damage. Some officials said they suspected the fire, which gutted most of the laboratory where […]
An unidentified man and a woman died in the early hours of Monday when a room they had booked at a leisure centre in Mzuzu caught fire and they died as they had been engaged sex . It is alleged that the woman was a commercial sex worker and on the fateful night had a […]
Fire has gutted key offices at the prison headquarters in Zomba in the wee hours of Wednesday but has not affected Zomba Maximum prison inmates. Prisons spokesperson Julius Magombo said the fire started around 2am on Wednesday but authorities are yet to establish the cause of the fire. “The fire has affected our key administration […]
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 […]
State Vice President, Dr. Saulos Chilima has called for examination of all public buildings that accommodates people in large numbers to ensure that their electrical systems do not expose the infrastructure to fire accidents. He said this on Thursday in Mangochi, where he visited and donated assorted items to Mangochi District Hospital which was gutted […]
The fire that razed down the integrated Maternal and Child Health (MCH) block at Mangochi District Hospital has left the health facility too ‘incapacitated’ to handle emergencies as most critical equipment was destroyed. Mangochi District Health Officer (DHO), Dr. Henry Chibowa, and the District Commissioner (DC), Rev. Moses Chimphepo, disclosed this when they presented a […]
Mangochi district health officer Dr Henry Chibowa Jr says a preliminary report on the cause of fire at the hospital show the cause was high power voltage which surged after electricity was restored following a black out. “This is just a preliminary report. We will institute a thorough investigation on the fire,” said Chibowa. Patients had […]
Minister of Health and Population Services, Atupele Muluzi on Sunday hailed people in Mangochi for dousing the inferno that gutted down Mangochi District Hospital’s integrated maternal and child health (IMCH) clinic from spreading to other blocks and wards. Muluzi visited the facility on Sunday evening to appreciate the damage that the fire had caused and […]
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi is in Mangochi leading a high level government team to assess the damage caused by fire that gutted Mangochi District Hospital. He arrived at the hospital at 5:30pm on Sunday and was taken around to look at the extent of the damage and the immediate needs of the hospital. Muluzi said people should […]
Fire on Sunday gutted Mangochi district hospital, completely destroying the female and pediatric wards and some patients are missing believed to have run away during the inferno. People around the hospital and the police managed to put the fire down as Mangochi District Council has no fire- fighting equipment. The volunteer amateur fire fighters and the police managed […]
There was a commotion at Karonga stadium during the game of Karonga United and Rumphi Pirates on Thursday when the 20 000 seaters stadium was gutted fire. The incident occurred around 4pm after the second half of the game. According to eye witness, reporter Grecian ‘Bolera’ Mbewe, the fire started at VIP stand. Mbewe said that the […]
Fire has gutted down a girl’s hostel block at Providence Girls secondary school in Mulanje district destroying considerable amount of property. According to an eye witness, the fire started at around 5 O’clock in the morning on Wednesday, consuming part of Bunda Hostel. Within minutes, communities around the school, Police and ESCOM officials from Mulanje […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday toured Area 13 Market in Lilongwe which had been destroyed by fire last Thursday. The fire is said to have started around 11pm and it took the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) Fire Brigade some two hours to put out—but only after […]
A container that serves as a storeroom for Peoples Fast Save shop in Area 3, Lilongwe on Wednesday caught fire resulting in the destruction of metal tools used for making shelves. Stores Clerk Felix Emmanuel said that it was in the morning of Wednesday when some employees at the shop saw smoke coming out from […]
There was panic among patients at Ntcheu District Hospital on Wednesday afternoon when part of the facility caught fire, forcing some patients to flee the wards. Guardians with children in their hands fled the hospital’s wards in an attempt to save the lives of their beloved ones after getting reports that part of the facility […]
Fire believed to have been caused by an electrical fault gutted a Chipiku Stores Shop at Luchenza on Saturday night where almost all the items were destroyed in the inferno. According to the shops guard, Peter Mendulo, the electricity main switch in the shop had a fault which has been there for a long time. […]
Fire has gutted down Zomba Police Secondary School Form 2 and 3 boys hostels where properties worth millions have also been burnt to ashes. The cause of the fire which started at around 18:30PM is yet to be established but information gathered by Nyasa Times reporter on the scene of the incident is electrical fault from students who […]