15 people have been killed in Thyolo from January this year representing 87.5 percent increase, police statistics show.

A Luchenza primary school Standard 1 learner has been killed by unknown assailants and police say they have launched manhunt.

A stolen Manchester United jersey has helped Thyolo Police detectives to arrest a 25-year-old man, Cosmas Gift Kamanga on suspected burglary and theft offences.

Police at Bvumbwe in Thyolo district have arrested two people on suspicion that they have stolen 20 bags of maize and 100 packs of Likuni phala for Tropical Cyclone Freddy survivors.

A 28-year-old man Stanly Kauya has been arrested in Thyolo for possessing property suspected to have been stolen valued at K3.5 million.

Senior Resident Magistrate Assunta Maxwell has ordered 55-year old Chester Mpondo and Jonam Mandala, 25, to pay a fine of K250,000 each or in default to serve a one year jail term over theft in Thyolo.

Thyolo First Grade Magistrate Kondani Chinangwa on Monday reserved his bail ruling for the five men who allegedly robbed two businesspersons of over K4.6 million and some valuables at gunpoint in the district last month.

Police in Thyolo have engaged a pathologist, Dr. Charles Dzamalala, to conduct further investigations on the body of a Standard 8 learner who was raped and strangled to death on Tuesday.

Police in Thyolo have disclosed that a 12-year-old school girl who went missing on Monday was raped before her assailants strangled her to death.