Kasama Boy Kills Pregnant Aunt, Rapes Corpse

Police in Kasama have arrested a 16-year-old boy for allegedly murdering his 22-year-old pregnant aunt and having sex with her corpse after she rebuked him for returning home drunk at an odd hour.
And six members of the same family died on the spot in a road traffic accident on the Kasama-Mbala road while four others are in a critical condition at Kasama General Hospital.
Northern Province commissioner of police Charity Katanga said yesterday that the juvenile allegedly stabbed Grace Musumali of Mulenga Hills in Kasama on the throat and stomach before having sex with her corpse.
Ms Katanga said all this allegedly happened while Ms Musumali’s one-year-old daughter watched.
She said Ms Musumali was three months pregnant.
Ms Katanga said the incident happened on Saturday between 20:00 hours and 03:00 hours whilst Ms Musumali’s husband, only identified as Mr Ndumba, had travelled to Ndola to watch the soccer match between Zambia and Mozambique.
“The juvenile had come home late and drunk and when she questioned him, he took a knife and stabbed her on the throat and stomach before raping her,” Ms Katanga said.
She said when questioned by police on why he murdered and raped his aunt, the boy responded that he decided to attack her because she allegedly denied him food for three days.
“The knife has been recovered and will be used as evidence before the courts of law,” Ms Katanga said.
She said police have detained the boy, who is related to Mr Ndumba.
Meanwhile, six members of the same family have died while four others are in a critical condition after the vehicle in which they were travelling, a Toyota Noah minibus, overturned.
Ms Katanga said the accident happened yesterday around 06:20 hours after a tyre burst while the family was travelling from Lusaka to Mbala to conclude funeral rites of their relative.
She said the accident happened at Shakabonga village about 30km from the Kasama-Mbala road.
“The family members were travelling from Lusaka to Mbala to conclude funeral rites of their relative who also died in a road accident,” Ms Katanga said.
She named the deceased as Moses Mayembe, 30, of Kanyama township in Lusaka, who was driving the vehicle, Foster Mayembe, 32, of Medium township in Mbala and Happy Mayembe, 27, of Lusaka West.
Others are Esther Mayembe, 39, Obed Mayembe, 60, and Melody Mayembe, 30, all of Lusaka West.
Ms Katanga identified those injured as Oline Namusokwe, 36, of Chawama township in Lusaka, the widow of the man whose funeral rites were to be concluded, Agnes Namwembe ,40, of Matero township, Juliet Mayembe of Mbala and Kate Mayembe, 30, of Kabwata township in Lusaka.
“All the injured are in a critical condition at Kasama General Hospital and the bodies are in the mortuary at the same hospital.
“The deceased whose funeral they were taking to the village died on Wednesday in a road traffic accident in Chongwe and was buried on Friday in Lusaka,” Ms Katanga said.