Police in Luchenza, Thyolo have arrested six people for allegedly blocking the Limbe-Thyolo-Mulanje road last night, a situation which degenerated to violent scenes, in an apparent retaliation to a hit and run incident of a child at Mangunda trading center in the district.

Police in Luchenza in Thyolo have rescued from a mob three suspected armed robbers who attacked a businessman and robbed him K550, 000 and groceries in the wee hours of Monday.

A family in Thyolo has accused police in Luchenza of assaulting them including their nine-year-old boy.

The police in Luchenza Thyolo have arrested 42 suspects, including village headmen Matewere and Shara, for allegedly demolishing eight houses and stealing property belonging to rival groups.

Barely few days after Luchenza Police in Thyolo arrested three people in connection to theft of railway materials along Limbe-Sandama railway line which is under rehabilitation, today two other suspects have also been nabbed over the same.

Tension is still mounting at Khonjeni in Thyolo district where the past two days irate villagers destroyed Khonjeni estate property in anger of the arrest of 8 fellow villagers accused of encroaching into the estate.