By Willy Kadewere

Chikwawa, November 13, Mana: Two little girls died after the wall of a dilapidated house fell on them this week at Gola at Traditional Authority Chapananga in Chikwawa District where the bodies were discovered in a rubble after some hours.

Chikwawa Police Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Dickson Matemba confirmed the incident and deceased children were identified as Vanessa Madandaulo, 4 and Esnart Stonard, 5.

According to Chikwawa Police the two were left home while their parents went out to do some activities within the area and it was believed that in the course of the play, the wall of an abandoned house fell on them.

Sergeant Matemba added that in the evening, the parents discovered that the children were missing thereby prompting them to start searching within the neighbourhood.

“Later, they discovered two lifeless bodies under the rubbles in one of the houses that the children used to play,” he added.

Police and a medical team rushed to the accident scene and after conducting postmortem, it was discovered that the death was due to suffocation after the rubbles had covered them, according to the Police PRO in Chikwawa.

The police in the district therefore warned parents to closely monitor movements of their children to avoid similar incidents.