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A LUPANE MAN (27) from killed his one year old baby and left his wife and daughter critically injured in a savage attack with a hammer
A LUPANE MAN (27) from Dandanda village killed his one year old baby at a Pentecostal church shrine callled Madzibaba Jerusalem on Sunday evening.
The killer Lungisani Dube (27) is reported to have started dancing wildly like he was in a trance and wouldn’t stop even after being asked to calm down by other congregants. after he had spent five days fasting.
He was then taken home but he allegedly continued rythmic dancing to music that only he could hear in his head, before hammering his wife Privilege Tshuma (22), mother in law Ottilia Mpofu (22) and baby Simelinkosi (1).
His baby died from the savage hammering and his wife and mother inlaw are hospitalised in a critical condition at St Lukes Hospital in St Lukes. Lungisani is now detained at Bulawayo Ingutsheni Mental hospital after being initially taken by police to St Lukes.
This is not the first incident in that region from mentally challenged people as last year a mentally challenged man (33) sat under a tree at Kremor business centre armed with an axe for hours then suddenly pounced and attacked a group of school children walking past from school. As aresult of this attack , a form four pupil was hospitalised and died the following day.
There had been several recent attacks before that one in the region by mentally challenged people, with a total of four happening over some time .
A Lower Gweru man (34) strangled his mother before savagely chopping and killing two neighbours with an axe earlier on that month.
Another mentally challenged man from Tsholotsho, last year butchered a six year old to death , ripped open his own stomach with a knife then stood guard over the corpse.
The situation affecting mentally challenged patients is now critical due to the shortage of drugs for both in and out patients and only last year a total of three patients were attacked by patients who were no longer receiving their mental drugs. chronicle