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ACCIDENT: 5 killed, 12 injured in head on between a Baker’s Inn truck and a Toyota Granvia at the 123-kilometre peg along the Harare-Bulawayo Road yesterday. The delivery a Kadoma-bound Baker’s Inn truck swerved into the oncoming traffic lane, causing a head-on collision with a Toyota Granvia .minibus with 15 people on board.Twelve people were injured and five people died in the collision at the 123-kilometre peg along the Harare-Bulawayo Road yesterday. The deceased four…

A syndicate of five artisanal miners were arrested yesterday at Jumbo mine, Mazowe after they were found in position of a loaded pistol.Sources familiar with the incident allege the miners who are under the operations of Edmore Nyangani (39) were sent to Bindura for further investigations.“We arrested the five who were in possession of a loaded pistol that was hiden in a sack, they were using it to threaten other gold panners,” said the source.“Soon…

UK makes extradition request to US for Mrs Sacoola 42, whose husband Jonathan worked as a US intelligence officer in UK. Mortorcyclist Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with Mrs Sacoola’s car outside RAF CroughtonThe Home Office has requested the extradition of a US woman to be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of motorcyclist Harry Dunn.Mr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in…

TEXAS governor to reject new refugees under Trump Order, which slashes refugee limits to all time low of 18,000 refugees allowed into US for the 2020 fiscal yearThe Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, on Friday, said the Texas state will not accept new refugees under the US government’s resettlement programme as Texas had done “more than its share” for the refugee resettlement programme.The Trump Order means that Texas will become the first US state…

WOMAN, 21, who posed as teenage boy to ‘sexually assault up to 50 girls’ after grooming them is sentenced to eight years at Winchester Crown Court Gemma Watts, 21, was found guilty of seven counts of sexual assault in November after passing herself as a 16-year-old teenage boy called Jake (PA)MoreA “predatory” woman who posed as a teenage boy to groom and sexually assault up to 50 underage girls was jailed today.Gemma Watts, 21, travelled…

‘US PRESIDENT CLAIMS he was overlooked for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, referring to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, 43, Africa’s youngest head of government’.US President Donald Trump seems to think that he was overlooked for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Who was he talking about? Although he did not name the Nobel Peace Prize winner or the country, it is clear that Mr Trump was referring to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Mr Abiy, 43,…

Three people are battling for their lives after consuming meat from animals that died of anthrax in Mahusekwa, Marondera district.The three cases were picked at Chimbwanda Clinic last week and were confirmed at Mahusekwa Hospital on Monday. The three cases were picked at Chimbwanda Clinic last week and were confirmed at Mahusekwa Hospital on Monday.Marondera District Veterinary Officer, Dr Kramer Manyetu said on investigation, it was established that the affected three people consumed meat from…

A GANG OF 47 MACHETE WIELDING THUGS besieged a police base in Gokwe in an attempt to spring colleagues from police custody .The 47 gang members who besieged a police base in Gokwe in an attempt to rescue their counterparts who had been arrested for robbery, were yesterday remanded in custody to tomorrow pending bail hearing.They appeared before Gokwe Regional Magistrate Musaiona Shortgame at Nembudziya Circuit Court on charges of obstructing or defeating the course…

Ariel School experiencers took some doing, but eventually I connected with Sarah* in what she referred to as “a most stubborn old Rhodie [white Rhodesian] bar” in downtown Harare.Of the more than 110 children and staff who had been at the school, which sits just outside the small agricultural centre of Ruwa, when the aliens landed in 1994, she thought she was probably the only one still in the country.“Everyone’s fucked off to Canada or…

Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran with 176 people on board, US media report.US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft – but Iran ruled this out.The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.CBS…