On Saturday, a man identified as Savior Katiyo of Longridge, 28 killed himself after slaughtering his wife, Susan Moono, 20 in Chilanga district, Lusaka.
According to Esther Mwaata Katongo, Police spokesperson, while confirming the incident said :
“The body was found lying halfway on the mattress while the body of the suspect was found hugging in the corner of the room with human bites on both hands, chest, shoulder and on the back,”
She said a knife suspected to have been used in the act with blood stains has been recovered from a one-roomed house owned by a Mathews Muwowo where Katiyo had moved to stay following a marital dispute.
“It is alleged that Saviour Katiyo had moved from his matrimonial home and was staying at Muwowo’s house where the wife followed and seem to have had an altercation,”