A heartless father of 27 has left many people in shock after it was discovered that he reportedly murdered his son and buried him at his office.
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A 27 year old man identified as George Phiri of Lusaka’s Chawama Township has been arrested by Police for allegedly murdering his child aged two years seven months by poisoning the child with doom, Mwebantu News has reported.
The sad incident happened in Zambia.
Speaking about the incident, Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo revealed that the suspect allegedly murdered his child and later buried the body at Daso School of Lusaka’s John Howard where he is a care taker. A family member alerted the police about the sad incident.
“The incident is reported to have happened on 26th July, 2017 at about 1900 hours,” Katongo say.
“The suspect who led the police to the scene where he burried his child is reported to have poisoned the child using doom with the view of killing the child and later kill himself.”
Katongo says yhe suspect is detained in Police custody while the body is yet to be exhumed.
“Police officers have secured the place and they are waiting for the pathologist to conduct postmortem after exhumation of the body,” says Katongo.