POLICE on the Copperbelt have detained a 28-year-old woman of Chingola township for allegedly poisoning her 2-year-old sick child. According to police, the woman alleged that she was given the poisonous liquid substance by another woman who claimed it was anointing water. According to a statement issued by Copperbelt Police Commissioner Peacewell Mweemba, the incident occurred, Wednesday, around 20:00 hours at Nchanga North Hospital and was reported to the police by a nurse at the same hospital. “Nchanga Police Station is in receipt of a report of murder OB No.7005/23 [which] occurred on June 14, 2023 at about 20:00 hours at Nchanga North hospital in which F/Kabwe Mulenga aged 23 of Chingola South, a nurse at Nchanga North hospital reported...

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