Binga district development coordinator Farai Marinyane
confirmed the accident yesterday, adding the police and members of the
community were already on the ground searching for two bodies, after one of the
bodies was recovered.
It is reported that the three were travelling in a wooden
dinghy-boat, but their transporter survived after he managed to swim to safety.
The deceased were said to have been coming from Binga Hospital where they had
gone for medical attention.
“Yes I can confirm that three people, a mother and her two
children, who were coming from Binga District Hospital, drowned after the
wooden dinghy boat they were travelling in capsized,” Marinyane said.
“One body has so far been recovered and two are still
missing. Police and the community are on the ground searching for the two
remaining bodies,” he said.
Marinyane urged the community to wear life jackets for
their safety whenever they are travelling by boat.
“It’s so sad to lose life this way, hence I urge travellers
to wear life jackets whenever they travel by boat.”
He also urged Kariba residents to use certified water
transporters whenever they use boats as transport.
Reports said the wooden vessel that the three were
travelling on developed a crack, resulting in it capsizing.
The vessel was said to have been carrying four people,
including the transporter and was travelling from Binga centre to Kalulwe
Fishing Camp, 10km away.
Two illegal smugglers drowned two months ago near Chirundu
in Hurungwe district while trying to cross the Zambezi River. Newsday
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