A 28-year-old man has died in Vubwi district following an epileptic episode that led to his drowning.<\/p>\n
Alickangel Sakala, suffered an attack as he washed clothes in a stream close to his house.<\/p>\n
Eastern Province Police Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba, confirmed the incident saying the deceased hailed from Kamphambe village in Chief Pembamoyo\u2019s area.<\/p>\n
ZANIS reports that Mr Mweemba noted that the incident was reported by the deceased’s brother, Vivian Sakala, on February 2nd<\/sup>, 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cBe informed that Vubwi Police Station received a report of drowning, which occurred today, 2nd February, 2026, between 11:00 hours and 14:00 hours in Kadentenene stream,\u201d Mr Mweemba noted.<\/p>\n Sakala allegedly drowned while washing clothes in Kadentenene stream located about 500 metres from his house.<\/p>\n Brief facts of the matter are that, on the fateful day, Sakala was last seen by his cousin, 35-year-old Christine Banda of the same village, going to do his laundry in the stream around 10:00 hours in the morning.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, he was later discovered dead four hours later by two juveniles from the same village, who went to swim in the stream.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was discovered in Kadentenene stream around 14:00 hours by two boys, namely Male Juvenile Steven Mwale, aged 11 years, and Male Juvenile Richard Banda, aged 11 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The boys later alerted his elder brother, Vivian Sakala, who in turn informed the police of the tragedy.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice officers rushed to the scene and found the body of the deceased in the water facing downwards,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Preliminary investigations suggest no foul play, as no physical injuries were observed on the deceased\u2019s body.<\/p>\n \u201cInspecting the surroundings, they discovered a bucket with clothes and washing soap, revealing that the deceased must have gone to the stream to wash his clothes before the epileptic attack,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Police have since advised the family of the deceased to bury the body and mark the grave for possible exhumation.<\/p>\n Sakala who has been battling the neurological disorder for a long time, at the time of his death, was divorced and is survived by four children.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 28-year-old man has died in Vubwi district following an epileptic episode that led to his drowning. Alickangel Sakala, suffered an attack as he washed clothes in a stream close to his house. Eastern Province Police Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba, confirmed the incident saying the deceased hailed from Kamphambe village in Chief Pembamoyo\u2019s area. ZANIS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[26,78,25],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-onlyzanis","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-zambiapolice","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}