Imbiber robbed, left for dead in sewer

By Plaxcedes Hove

BULAWAYO – A man coming from a beer-drink spent 12 hours drenched in sewage after being thrown in a drain by suspected robbers. Silas Tsvigu, 33, of Emganwini suburb, is lucky to be alive after he was attacked by five men who robbed and threw him in a sewage drain in the suburb on Saturday night.

Tsvigu spent the whole night in the drain and was only rescued by a passerby at around 10AM yesterday. Police  said Tsvigu told  them that he was attacked by five men as he walked home.

“Tsvigu was attacked around 10PM on Saturday on his way home from a beerhall. He spent the whole night in the drain as he could not move,” said a police source.

A man, who identified himself only as Ngulube, said he spotted Tsvigu in the  drain and reported the matter to Nkulumane police station. Ngulube said at first he thought Tsvigu was dead.

“I saw the man around 10AM on my way to church and I thought he was dead because he was not moving. I then reported to the police who later found out that he was still alive and called an ambulance to rush him to hospital,” said Ngulube.

He said Tsvigu told him that he  was attacked by five men who robbed him of his money before throwing him into the drain. When the newscrew arrived at the scene, an ambulance had just arrived to ferry Tsvigu to Mpilo Central Hospital. Chronicle