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Midlands Correspondent
A 46 YEAR-OLD Gweru man has been arrested for allegedly poisoning five cattle belonging to different villagers after they strayed into his farm.
Acting police spokesperson for Midlands province, Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the arrest of Franil Hamandishe of Brooming Farm.
She said the incident occurred on Wednesday last week when plot holders at Durham Farm on the outskirts of Gweru along the Gweru-Matobo
Road discovered carcasses of their cattle at Brooming Farm.
Asst Insp Mukwende said the owner of Brooming Farm, Hamandishe was now in custody assisting police with investigations.
“Circumstances are that on Wednesday at about 8am, police in Gweru received a report that five cattle belonging to different villagers were found dead at Brooming Farm which is owned by Franil Hamandishe. Police who attended the scene arrested Hamandishe after it emerged that the cattle could have been poisoned,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.
She said a postmortem by the Veterinary Department revealed that the cattle died due to poisoning.
“Police also recovered some poisoned silage at Hamandishe’s farm,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.
The acting Midlands police spokesperson said Hamandishe was due to appear in court facing a charge of malicious damage to property.
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