Category: Accidents

PICTURE: Two vehicles plunge into bridge killing one

PICTURE: Two vehicles plunge into bridge killing one

HARARE – One person is believed to have died when these two city-bound vehicles plunged into a bridge along Samora Machel (Bulawayo Road) just after the National Sports Stadium at around 9 am on Thursday.

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What remains of Captain Taruvinga’s car

PICTURE: Wreckage from car accident that killed Air Zim pilot

HARARE – On Wednesday we exclusively reported how veteran Air Zimbabwe pilot and flight operations manager Captain Danai Taruvinga (50) died in an accident when his Mazda 6 car was rammed by an Irvine’s Ford Ranger twin cab as he was driving out of his Waterfalls residence in Harare.

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Veteran Air Zimbabwe pilot Captain Danai Taruvinga dies in car accident

Veteran Air Zimbabwe pilot Captain Danai Taruvinga dies in car accident

HARARE – An Air Zimbabwe pilot who flew into a hailstorm and lost his licence almost six years ago has died in a car accident today according to a report filed by a Nehanda Radio Citizen Reporter.

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The Fire Brigade arrives at the scene of the disaster

PICTURES: City building collapses killing one

Just as our Citizen Reporter, reported yesterday, at least one person died while three were injured after part of Mahommed Mussa Wholesalers roof they were renovating collapsed along Orr Street in the afternoon. The identity of the deceased is yet to be confirmed.

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Harare City Centre near the Charge Office (Pic by planet africa  photography)

Worker killed after falling from roof of Mohammed Mussa Wholesale complex

HARARE – One person employed as an artisan by the GRID Transmission Company died on the spot today at midday when he fell from the roof of a Mohammed Mussa Wholesale Complex that partly collapsed at the corner of Orr Street and South Avenue.

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Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga's ID U.S. District Court in Alexandria

Drink driving US spy killed Zimbabwean

The facts laid out by prosecutors are plain: In 2008, a U.S. government employee on assignment in Zimbabwe drove through Harare in his government-issued Toyota Land Cruiser and struck and killed a 34-year-old man.

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Police attend to Tsvangirai car accident in 2009

Lupane officer-in-charge killed in accident

VICTORIA FALLS – The officer-in-charge of Lupane Police Station in Matabeleland North, Chief Inspector Patrick Haruziveshe died on the spot while five people he was travelling with were injured when a police car he was driving was involved in an accident.

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The wreckage of the MegaLink Bus Company coach in which 21 people perished early yesterday morning

Why is Ngundu Bus Disaster report not being released?

April 16 marks exactly one year since the horrific Megalink Ngundu national bus disaster which killed many and left many puzzled. The shocking revelation is that a police report or at least a report of what transpired remains a mystery.

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Webster Shamu pays his last respects to the two children and their mother who died after being struck by a car on their way home after attending the main Independence Day Anniversary celebrations, at Assemblies of God Church in Warren Park 1, Harare, yesterday. Rumbidzai (6) and Nyasha (18 months) were killed together with their mother, Simbisai Mumango. — Picture by Kudakwashe Hunda

Warren Park accident victims buried

HARARE – A sombre atmosphere engulfed Harare’s Warren Park suburb when the bodies of a woman and her two children who were knocked down by a car while on their way home from the 33rd Independence Day celebrations made one last lap of honour.

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