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Malawi’s Chitipa man kills his mother on Mother’s Day

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Malawi’s Chitipa man kills his mother on Mother’s Day

CHITIPA-(MaraviPost)-A man has hacked his own mother to death on a Mother’s Day in Chitipa.

According to Chitipa Police Station Spokesperson Gladwell Simwaka, the man, Elisha Kasila, 29, is mentally challenged; and because of the same, he has been forcing his mother, who just came back from Zambia, to sleep with him.

Howeve, the mother, Edith Nakawala, had been turning down all the advances of the man.

During the early hours of Tuesday, the man tiptoed into the mother’s bedroom and tried to force himself on her.

As a result, the mother woke up and continued to turn him away. Because of that, he ended up beating and stabbing her five times with a knife until she became unconscious.

A postmortem conducted at Chitipa District Hospital indicated that the woman died of severe loss of blood

The deceased Edith Nakawala, 59, haled from Kafwimbi Village in Isoka Province in Zambia.

Richard Kayenda

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