A teak tree reportedly fell on a 16-year old boy in Vic Falls as he was walking past a vegetable market killing him on the spot the Chronicle reports.
Eyewitnesses said the boy was walking with his 2 friends when they heard a deafening sound as the tree fell heavily and landed on Steven who couldn’t react on time.
ZRP’s Assitant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident:
We confirm receiving a report about an incident which occurred at 12PM involving a Form Three pupil who was on his way home from school. The incident happened when he passed through a vegetable market and in the process he was crushed to death by a big tree that fell on him.
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