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Mob Kills Man For Beating Wife Dead

An angry mob has killed a 41-year-old man in Ntcheu who they suspect beat his wife to death after the two allegedly picked a quarrel Monday evening.

Ntcheu Police Station spokesperson, Hastings Chigalu, has identified the two as Aubrey James and wife Lyness Million aged 33.

The incident happened at  Zidana Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kwataine where the two lived as a family.

“The two picked a fight …over maize sales. When they wife confronted the wife, the husband beat her up. He left her unconscious,” Chigalu said.

The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at Nsipe Health Centre where she was rushed to by well-wishers.

Chigalu said “When news broke the woman had died, angry villagers descended on the husband and assaulted him to death”.

A postmortem at the district hospital established that the wife died due to internal breeding secondary to violent assault on the abdomen.

The husband died of head injuries.

Police say are yet to make any arrest in connection with the mob justice act.

 

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Last modified on Wednesday, 15/04/2020

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