BABY DROWNS IN A WELL AFTER TRAILING MOTHER WHO WENT BATHING

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BABY DROWNS IN A WELL AFTER TRAILING MOTHER WHO WENT BATHING

A MOTHER in Lusaka’s Ng’ombe Compound has been left in anguish after discovering her missing baby, drowning and gasping for air while she breathed her last breath.

It is reported that the mother whose Identity has been withheld, left the one year, 11 months baby Ngwane Nkhata sleeping in the house as she went outside to go and bathe.

Unknown to her baby Ngwane woke up as she was bathing and started trailing her mother.

It is reported that after Ngwane’s mother completed her bath and returned to her house while still drenched from some bath water, she found the baby had disappeared from the room where she was sleeping and began searching for her in panic.

She looked at every nuke and cranny until the baby was seen gasping for life in an uncovered water well within the yard.

“Members of the community assisted to retrieve the baby and rushed her to Ng’ombe Clinic where he was pronounced dead upon arrival,” Zambia Police deputy spokesperson Danny Mwale said through a statement.

Mwale told Kalemba that the body is at the University Teaching Hospitals Mortuary awaiting Postmortem and burial while the police have opened an inquiry into the case.

By Moses Makwaya