Police in Chalimbana have arrested three suspects for rap!ng a 19 year old woman of Silverest area in Chongwe District.
Brief facts of the matter are that on November 5, 2023 at around 02hrs, three men only identified as Blackson Lungu aged 25, Allan Jere aged 23 and Aswell Mwale aged 22 all of Silverest went to the victims house and started throwing stones on the roof while shouting and making noise.
Therefore, the victim’s husband decided to go and check on what was going on outside only for the trio to beat him up and robbed him his phone in the process.
According to Zambia Police Spokesperson Mr Hamoonga, the three criminals entered the house and got to hold the victim, drugged her to a nearby bush where they ganged up by rap!ng her and stole her phone, bag and money amounting to K2300 in the process.
“When the husband, who was in the company of neighbours came back, he found his house empty and started looking for the missing wife”.
Hamoonga also said the victim was later found in the nearby bush with one suspect while two others had run away but were later apprehended.
Police officers visited the scene of crime and managed to recover the stolen properties from the suspects while a medical report was issued to the said victim.
“The suspects are in police custody waiting to appear in court soon”, Hamoonga further discloses.
Credit: NKANI