On Saturday in Dowa, an angry mob killed a suspected cattle rustler, a second such incident in two months in that district alone.

 

Dowa police spokesperson, Sub-inspector Gladson M'bumpha, told Zodiak Online Sunday that an unknown caller tipped police about alleging that people of Chikunda village were assaulting a suspected cattle rustler at Mitembo village along the Dowa- Dzaleka road. 

 

Police rushed to the scene where they found the suspect lying dead in the middle of the road with wounds in the stomach. 

 

"He was in a pool of his own blood," he said. 

 

The body now lays in the morgue at Dowa district hospital pending postmortem and identification as police investigations into his killers begin.