Midlands provincial magistrate Mrs Phathekile Msipa has ordered an inquest into the death of Eunice Machava (20) of Village 42 in Chiodza, Chirumanzu who was five months pregnant. Machava experienced stomach pains after drinking tea that had been prepared by her boyfriend Saul Mandiki (35), a week after she eloped to his home in Mvuma.
In an affidavit Machava’s elder sister Loice (26) said on April 30, her late sibling revealed that she was experiencing stomach pains after allegedly drinking a portion to abort the pregnancy. Mandiki said that he had taken Eunice in although she was already five months pregnant. He said that Eunice died on the same day she eloped.
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