She is now battling for her life in hospital. Clara Muronda Makachemu is reported to have
prepared rice for her family and mixed it with a poisonous substance, which is
yet to be identified.
Clara served the food to her four children — Ryan,14,
Atidaishe, 10, Atipashe, 8 and Anenyasha, 4.
She also ate the same rice. Clara was spotted vomiting in a
toilet by a child who had come to see a friend.
The child failed to enter the room, which was engulfed in
smoke, left the house and told David Makachemu, who is a relative of the
family, about the smoke coming out of the house. David had been seated outside
the house. David burst into the room and found the children lying unconscious.
Atidaishe and Atipashe died upon arriving at a local clinic
and Clara and her two other children are battling for life at Sally Mugabe
Hospital.
