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Zimbabwe soldier beheads son
21/01/2008 00:06 - (SA)
Harare - A soldier has been arrested in the Zimbabwean town of Chitungwiza for beheading his five-year-old son, clubbing his mother-in-law to death and attempting to kill his stepdaughter, reports said on Sunday.
Police had to shoot 35-year-old Zimbabwe National Army soldier Isaac Sibanda in the leg to disable him at the scene of the crime on Saturday, a police spokesperson told the official Sunday Mail.
He is reported to have had an argument with his wife in the early hours of the morning. She ran out of their bedroom and the soldier then turned on other members of the family.
"Sibanda allegedly took a hoe, which he used to slay his mother-in-law. He proceeded to chop off his sons head using the same hoe," said police spokesperson Andrew Phiri.
"We shot him on the leg after he slit and pulled out his dead sons intestines," Phiri told the Sunday Mail.
The incident has left residents of Chitungwiza, 20km south of Harare, in a state of shock.
Sibanda, who is recovering from the gunshot wound at Harare Central Hospital is being charged with a double murder and an attempted murder. - Sapd-dpa
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