A 25-year-old woman of Chama District in Eastern Province has committed suicide by hanging herself using a mosquito net tied to a pole inside her grass thatched house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eastern Province Police Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba has confirmed the suicide which occurred on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, around 09:00 hours at Chimbilima Village, in Chief Kambombo\u2019s area and was later reported to Chama Police Station at about 11:40 hours, by Mphalausenga Ward Councillor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deceased has been identified as Esther Zimba of Chimbilima Village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to information made available to police, Esther Zimba, had been separated from her husband, Gideon Luhanga, with whom she had two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Earlier on the same day around 08:00 hours, Mr Luhanga visited his estranged wife at her mother\u2019s residence and requested to take the children to his home for a holiday. However, Esther initially refused, only agreeing after persuasion from her mother to release one child, a six-year-old girl,” Mr Mweemba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is reported that the development did not sit well with the deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Shortly after, the now deceased went to a nearby maize field. She later returned home, left the harvested maize outside, entered the house and allegedly hanged herself,\u201d Mr Mweemba detailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said she was discovered by her mother, who attempted to rescue her, but it was too late as she had already died. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 25-year-old woman of Chama District in Eastern Province has committed suicide by hanging herself using a mosquito net tied to a pole inside her grass thatched house. Eastern Province Police Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba has confirmed the suicide which occurred on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, around 09:00 hours at Chimbilima Village, in Chief Kambombo\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}