Woman found dead in a bush

Sibongiseni Mfanaso Mpofu allegedly struck Christine Ncube (72) on the head with an axe before dousing her with paraffin and setting the body ablaze.

Kudzai Gaveni, Online Writer

BULAWAYO police found the body of an unidentified woman brutally murdered in a bushy area at Denver Farm, Cowdray Park.

In a statement on X, police said the victim who was wearing a red and white coloured dress, and a charcoal-grey hood jacket was found dead with swollen lips and cuts on the head and knees.

Police appealed for information that may help with the investigations of the case.

“Police in Bulawayo are appealing for information that may assist in the investigations of a case of murder in which a yet-to-be-identified woman was found dead with swollen lips and cuts on the head and knees in a bushy area at Denver Farm, Cowdray Park. The victim was wearing a red and white coloured dress, and a charcoal–grey hood jacket. Anyone with information to report at any nearest police station,” reads the statement.