A 23 year old Blessings Nyondo is battling for his life at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the City of Blantyre after Malawi police officer shot him on 31 December upon mistaking him for a robber.
The facts on the ground are that on the said date Blessings was heading to cross over prayers that was taking place at Kwacha Blantyre. On his way he found robbers attacking unidentified woman where he rendered his services to her rescue.
The thugs left the woman and started chasing the Nyondo, who, in the course of running for his dear life he came across MBC vehicle which was carrying its staff with two armed police officers, who shot him when he insisted to board the vehicle to save his life from the thugs.
Avant Publications tends to refute rumours of ten live shots but rather bring it to right that it was a single shot but the impact defected into seven areas of affection.
Doctors at QUECH have failed to retrieve some of the bullet’s residues in all seven affected inside body parts but rather only three as the remaining ones are said to have been landed on delicate organs, whilst others are deep inside and invisible.
Avant publications made an effort to talk to the victim’s (Nyondo) relatives but it proved futile and more to follow in our subsequent articles.
As a media House would like to question how police are handling such cases, is it the way they were trained or they have been given much powers to treat matters at hand in this way contrary to what they have learnt?
Remember just some days ago we had a similar, (police shooting) case at Bvumbwe where death was reported.
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