Lusaka man held over girlfriend’s death

…As Zambian family perish in SA

POLICE in Lusaka yesterday detained a 34-yearold man of Lusaka’s Meanwood Ibex area for allegedly shooting dead his 26-year-old girlfriend identified as Precious Mangesana, after a dispute. The suspect is alleged to have also shot his two-yearold daughter in the neck but that medical personnel at Fairview Hospital successfully managed to remove the projectile that was stuck in the neck. Nshinka Kaputu, is alleged to have shot his girlfriend outside his house when the deceased went to pick up their daughter. Police spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed the shooting in a statement, saying police were alerted by the victim’s relatives. “We received a report of murder which happened yesterday, 5th October, 2017 at about 20:00 hours in Meanwood Ibex Hill area in which Nshinka Kaputu aged 34 of unknown house number in Meanwood is alleged to have shot dead his girlfriend, Precious Mangesana aged 26 of unknown house number, Lusaka West using a pistol. “The victim went to the accused person’s residence to pick her daughter aged two years seven months who was at her father’s residence in Meanwood. She sustained a bullet wound on the neck. The scene was visited and a pistol with 10 rounds of ammunition was recovered. The accused person is detained in police custody while the body is lying in UTH mortuary awaiting post-mortem. We have just established that the baby was also shot in the neck and the projectile was stuck in the neck. It has been extracted by medical personnel at Fairview Hospital,” stated Ms Katongo. Meanwhile, Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba confirmed that a family of four Zambians died in a car crash in South Africa last weekend. Mr Mwamba said officials identified the bodies as those of a couple; Dr. Carol Nalavwe Nyimbili, wife, Louis Musendeka, Raphaela Musendeka, the daughter aged 6 years, and their son Miguel Angelo Musendeka, aged 1 year 7 months. “Details emerged that a car accident in Cape Town claimed the lives two adults and two children who were killed in a gruesome collision between two vehicles near the FW de Klerk Boulevard in central Cape Town on early Monday morning,” Mr Mwamba said.