Human skull-carrying dog stuns residents

June 22, 2012 | 

By ALEX NJOVU

A DOG stunned Luanshya’s Maposa farm block residents when it emerged from a nearby bush with a human skull.
Copperbelt commissioner of police Mary Tembo said the incident happened on Tuesday around 11:30 hours when the dog, belonging to an 80-year-old woman identified as Mandalena Kofe, emerged from a thicket with a human skull.
“We have a case where a dog was seen carrying a human skull. It was coming from a nearby bush within the settlement when it was spotted with a human skull,” Ms Tembo said.
she said officers from Luanshya Municipal Council grabbed the skull from the dog and buried it immediately.
She said police have instituted investigations into the matter.
And police in Luanshya are looking for a 20-year- old woman who allegedly abandoned her newly-born baby after delivering at Mpatamatu clinic.
Ms Tembo said Astridah Junza allegedly abandoned the baby soon after she delivered on Tuesday.
“This woman gave false information about herself and the address. She gave hospital workers wrong information about her house in Mpatamato.
“She told the workers that she had left clothes for the baby at home and when she was allowed to go and collect them, she never went back to the clinic. The baby is in an incubator because it is underweight. The baby weighed 1.9 kilogrammes at birth,” Ms Tembo said.