Online Reporter
B-Metro Reporter
A TRIP to buy a tombstone ended in tragedy when a four-year-old boy was crushed to death by the very thing meant to honour the dead.
According to police, the freak accident happened at the corner of Ninth Street and Mushongandebvu Street in Mbare, Harare, on Friday.
“The ZRP reports a sad incident in which a male infant aged four years, seven months died after he was hit by a tombstone,” the police confirmed in a statement.
The boy had gone with his father to a funeral home to choose a tombstone when disaster struck.
“The victim had accompanied his father to buy a tombstone when he tripped and tried to balance by holding a tombstone on display. The tombstone then fell and hit him on the head,” said police.
The boy was rushed to hospital, but he was pronounced dead on admission.
