A 15-YEAR-OLD boy of Mazabuka has died after being electrocuted while on a bird hunting expedition. Southern Province Police Commanding Officer Auxensio Daka confirmed the incident, stating that the deceased, identified as Namata Namata, left his parents’ home on Monday, March 17, around 12:00 hours with two friends, aged 8 and 9, to hunt birds at Kalonga Farms. He narrated that during the hunt, Namata hit a bird using catapults, but it got stuck on electrical cable connections on the pole. Daka said when the bird did not fall, the boy climbed the wooden pole to get it but was electrocuted about nine meters from the ground. “Brief facts of the matter are that the deceased, identified as Namata Namata,...
