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A man from Nkayi has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to kill a fellow villager by breaking into her house, choking and beating her up before forcing her to drink an unidentified smelly liquid which made her faint.

Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 138 civilians in Burkina Faso's volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials said Saturday.

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has lost equipment worth US$167 785 in a year while the value of those recovered stands at US$79 946 with 322 criminals arrested out of 124 cases that were dealt with, an official has said.

After forgetting what it felt like to win, let alone score a goal in their last weekend’s encounter against Highlanders, Chicken Inn bounced back to winning ways as they handed Bulawayo Chiefs their second defeat in the Chibuku Super in a Group Two fixture played at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday.

A passenger on a US airplane tried to smash his way into the cockpit until another traveler and members of the air crew tackled him and pinned him down, witnesses said.