A 16 year old girl identified as Chonchobe Yeremia has died after she was attacked by a crocodile in Bua river in Dowa district.
It is said that the girl who was with her friends were sent to fetch vegetables in a garden that is close to the river.
But after they finished their main task, the girls wanted to draw water from the river before she was attacked by a marauding crocodile.
Efforts by her friends were not enough as she was immersed in deep waters by the fierce creature.
After hours of search, community members found her already dead.
Postmortem results at Bowe Health Centre revealed that death was due to suffocation and loss of blood.
Chonchobe, hailed from Lichele village in Traditional Authority Chakhaza in the district.
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