Lightning has struck four people dead and injured three others at Kasimu Trading Centre in the area of Senior Chief Chowe in Mangochi, police have confirmed. Mangochi Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Sub-Inspector Amina Tepani-Daudi said the incident occurred on Saturday evening in the wake of a heavy downpour. Daudi said the seven were struck […]
Two young men have been killed after they were struck with lightning which accompanied heavy rains yesterday in Mulanje. Police said the two youngmen were aged 19 and 22. They were struck at Sapala village in Mulanje. The two were confirmed dead on arrival at M’biza health centre. The In-Charge at the health centre, Bonnie […]
A 12 year old girl, identified as Amina Nthondo was on Sunday killed by lightning at Mpingu trading centre in Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer, Kingsley Dandaula confirmed the incident. He said Nthondo Kavwenje from Kapunula Village in the Area of Traditional Authority Mbwatalika in Lilongwe, father to the deceased, reported to Mpingu police […]
A Chikwawa businessman was struck to death by a lightening Sunday afternoon while on his way to conduct business at Mbenje Trading Centre in Nsanje district. Malawi Police identified the man as John Chiwaya from Traditional Authority Ngabu in Chikwawa. According to Nsanje Police Public Relations Officer Sergeant Agness Zalakoma, Chiwaya met his fate on […]
A lighting strike has hit a group of five people from the same family in central region lakeshore district of Salima injuring them all, Malawi Police has confirmed. Police officials indicate that the victims are admitted at Salima District Hospital after being hit by lightening on the morning of January 25. Salima Police Public Relations Officer, […]
A 38 year old Yusuf Whitmore of Saiti Village, Traditional Authority (TA) Kuluunda in Salima was struck to death by lightning Sunday afternoon. The Salima police public relations officer (PRO) Sub-inspector Gift Chitowe confirmed the incident Monday saying Whitmore died on December 2016 as he was fleeing from the heavy rains. He said the deceased went […]
A lightning strike has killed a man in Machinga district . Police confirmed that Erick Idrissa aged 26 of Kambona Village, Traditional Authority Bwananyambi, Mangochi died suddenly after he was hit by lightning on Friday afternoon. The deceased went to play football at Namasika Primary School Ground but soon after the match, heavy rains started accompanied by lightning. […]
Malawi former first lady Anne Muluzi who left the country since she separated with former president Bakili Muluzi in 1999 is returning back home to attend the burial of their first born daughter, Esmie Muluzi Malisita, who was on Monday struck dead by lightning, together with her close friend Hazel Busile in Blantyre. . The two […]
First born daughter to former president Bakili Muluzi, Mrs Esme Muluzi-Malisita has been killed by lightning while at her farm at Mpemba in Blantyre, a relation Dr Ishamel Chioko has confirmed. Muluzi-Malisita died when lightning struck her and a friend Hazel Busile while the two were helping out in fertiliser application at a garden in Mpemba. […]
A girl died after being struck by lightning at Mughogho village in the area of Inkosi Kampingo Sibande in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba. Mzimba police spokesperson constable Gabriel Chiona identified the deceased as Loveness Mguntha aged 12 who met her fate when lightning struck in the evening on Friday. “The mother and her three children […]
Six girls sustained minor injuries at St Pius Parish gardens in Blantyre after a lightning struck them Sunday afternoon. The girls, aged between six and 13, belong to the church’s St Clara group (flower girls) and were doing their routine practices when the lightning struck. St Pius Parish Council Vice Chairman and Secretary, Christopher Chirwa and Dr […]
The Malawi’s Department of Meteorological Services is attributing increasing cases of bolt of lightning which are claiming lives of many people in the country to the department’s lack of necessary equipment of detecting lightning. Briefing reporters in the commercial capital Blantyre, Director of Climate Change and Meteorological Services Jolam Nkhokwe, said the lightning incidents are […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Dr Lazarus Chakwera on Monday joined mourners in Lilongwe’s Area 36 for a funeral service of 7 of the 8 Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) members who died from a lightning accident whilst in church. The eight who died on Saturday after lightning struck their church […]
Eight members of Seventh Day Adventist in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe have perished after being struck by lightning following heavy rains that soaked the better part of the city. The incident occurred at Area 36 on Saturday afternoon as the Adventists were busy worshipping. Several other church members have been admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) while others […]
Just few days after lightening killed two people in Salima and Neno districts, a man and a woman have died in separate incidents after lightening struck them to death over the weekend. The incident occurred in Karonga district where the third person, identified as 31-year-old Wilson Mbewe from TA Kapichi in Thyolo district, is battling […]