Man discovers 65 bullets in garden

WHAT was meant to be a tranquil afternoon of gardening turned into a security emergency for a man in the suburb of Hillcrest in Bulawayo after he unearthed a plastic bag full of live ammunition.

The man, a caretaker at a house that is reportedly owned by a Zimbabwean expatriate in the United Kingdom, discovered 65 rounds of ammunition on an anthill while he was preparing beds for a vegetable garden. According to a police memo seen by Sunday News, the incident occurred on 13 July.

“Circumstances are that on 13/07/22 at around 1500 hours, the informant was in the garden where he was uprooting a tree in order to create vegetable beds.

“As he was digging, he came across an OK supermarket white plastic bag with rounds of ammunition about 30cm deep in the anthill next to a tree trunk,” the memo read.

According to a source who spoke to Sunday News on condition of anonymity, while the house has no tenant, it had been rented out until September last year to a man who had since reportedly relocated to Gwanda where he is now a transport operator.

The owner of the house, who is in the UK, had never seen the property first-hand and only sent money for its purchase.

Only the nephew of the expatriate is taking care of the property which is now under renovation.

Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident.