February 19, 2024- Chelston Police Station on February 18, 2024 at 1900 hours received a report of murder from Isaiah Lweela aged 47 of Chipokolo Village in Mponda Chiefdom near Kasisi Mine, who reported that he had discovered three unidentified dead bodies, two for females and one for a male all in a decomposed state.

The bodies were found in different places but not very far from each other. This occurred on February 18, 2024 at around 1500 hours at a farm in Chipokolo village.

Brief facts of the matter are that on February 18, 2024 at around 1500 hours, the reporter went to his farm to check on his maize field.

As he was going round, he smelled a bad odour and saw a lot of flies nearby.

He decided to check what was there only to find a dead body of a person.

He went back to the village and informed people who went to the scene in large numbers and Later on discovered two more dead bodies and decided to report the matter to Police.

The Scene of Crime was visited by police scenes of crime officers and the bodies were three; (two for females aged between 22 and 25 and one of a male person aged between 30 and 35.

The male body was found in the field with a deep cut on the head, clothed in a blue jean trousers, and white sneakers were recovered about 30 meters away from the body.

500 meters from the first body was another body of a female person with a deep cut on the right side of the neck.

The third body of a female was discovered 80 meters from the second body with a deep cut on the head. However, the axe suspected to have been used was recovered.

A yellow sweat shirt, white trousers, blue T-shirt, blue wrapper, a black cycling, a blue short and pink slippers were found and picked 30 meters from the third body.

Everything has been secured as exhibits. All the bodies had Postmortem conducted today and burial is scheduled to take place today. None of the bodies has been identified and investigations are underway.

Rae Hamoonga
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER.
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