Bizarre

An influential traditional priest aged 63 has sparked an outrage in Ghana by marrying a 12-year-old girl. The priest, Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, married her in a customary ceremony held on Saturday.

MASVINGO – A Ngundu nurse who probably wanted to escape responsibilities strangled and killed his girlfriend’s baby during delivery and threw the body in a pit latrine.

CHIWUNDURA - In a bizarre incident, a 40-year old Gweru man allegedly hanged himself in his former wife's bedroom to escape arrest for attempted murder of the woman.

BULAWAYO - Tredgold Regional Magistrates Court, Bulawayo, on Friday sentenced Prosper Bhule (30), a serial rapist to 232 years in jail after he was charged with 18 counts of rape.

Bulawayo based Prophet Blessing Chiza has told Job Sikhala to stop wearing suits and claimed that the former opposition MP was being inspired by the spirit of the late former South African President and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.

The multi-millionaire CEO of a tech company in India plunged to his death after trying to make a theatrical on stage entrance but instead fell 20 feet from a wooden structure suspended above a concrete stage.

Police in Kwekwe, the Midlands province are investigating a suspected ritualistic murder in which a teacher from Rio Tinto High School was found dead on Friday with his eyes gouged out, ears and nose missing and head skinned near a business centre in Zhombe.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested on charges of allegedly kidnapping 25 school children he was supposed to deliver to their homes in Harare but were found stranded and crying in his stationary kombi 103km away in Macheke.

Two men in Mpumalanga are facing charges of raping their daughters, police said on Wednesday. One of the accused fathers is a 35-year-old man from Balfour, who appeared before the Balfour Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for allegedly raping his step-daughter, aged eight.

A suspected Kenyan cult leader is to be charged with murder and terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 people found in mass graves, prosecutors say. Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April after the discovery of hundreds of bodies, some of whom were said to have starved themselves to death.