TWO bodies of a man and woman have been recovered at a farm
owned by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, about 60km from Beitbridge border town.
Police said the bodies were of lovers that were involved in
a love triangle. A source who attended the scene said the woman is suspected to
have double-crossed her lover with another man who had promised to take her to
sungura artiste Alick Macheso’s show.
Macheso performed in Beitbridge on March 6.
“Her live-in-lover,
who was a guard at Mohadi’s farm, intercepted messages about the proposed trip
and kept quiet,” said the source.
“When the woman requested money ostensibly to go and order
trinkets from Musina in South Africa, he asked her to join him in their room
where he locked the door and killed her before shooting himself.”
Police recovered the deceased lovers’ bodies at the bloody
scene.
The man, who must have blown his head by firing under his
chin, was still holding on to his murder-suicide weapon when their remains were
recovered.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi
confirmed the incident, saying it was part of a worrying trend of people dying
in crimes of passion.
“We have previously issued a statement on those deaths,” he
said. “In Beitbridge [at Mohadi’s farm] it was a tragic end of a
love triangle dispute.
“In the last eight days there were several deaths,
including two men who fatally clashed over a woman in Manicaland.”
Nyathi said the alleged murderer was arrested when he
returned to roast maize at the murder scene the following day and found
detectives waiting.
Police said during the same week, a man in Lusulu, Binga,
hacked to death five people including a baby.
The suspected murderer has since been identified as
Christopher Gotore.
He allegedly killed Admire Nyangarai, whose age was not
given, his wife Bibeat Munsaka (23) and the couple’s one-year-old baby Loice
Compassion Nyangarai, who was axed while on her mother’s back. Standard
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