By Scoop Reporter
POLICE in Livingstone have picked a body of an unidentified male adult which was discovered in the bush of Mwandi compound yesterday.
Police spokesperson Esther Katongo says the body was discovered at 13:00 hours by a member of the public of Mwandi Extension Compound.
Ms. Katongo says police visited the scene of crime and inspected the body believed to be for a man aged between 40 and 45 years which was in a decomposed state and that as a result, postmortem will be conducted on site today to determine the cause of the death.
Meanwhile, Ms. Katongo also said a 1-year old juvenile yesterday died after being run-over by an ox cart at about 10:30 hours at Kayoba village in Chief Cooma, in Choma District.
“The incident happened when the ox- cart being controlled by Mwaka Mudenda aged 24, run-over the juvenile victim, Chipego Monde, who was sleeping under a tree in a maize field while the mother was harvesting maize.
“The victim died on the way to Choma General Hospital and the body is in mortuary awaiting postmortem,” Ms. Katongo said.