Four kids burn to death in Zim - report
Harare - Four children were burnt to death in
southern Zimbabwe when a can of petrol being
stored inside their home caught fire, the official
Chronicle newspaper reported on Saturday.
The children were aged between two and 11.
They had been left sleeping in the care of a 20-
year-old woman in their home in the Matobo
District of Matabeleland South province. A gas
stove was left lit in a bedroom.
A can of petrol being stored there caught fire - but
the children were trapped inside. Villagers have
said that they heard screams but were unable to
help.
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Only one of the four children was rescued but he
died of his burns on the way to hospital.
The 20-year old woman is understood to be in
hospital in Bulawayo suffering from severe burns.
"I was supposed to go to Botswana to buy stock for
the shop and had visited my rural home early in
the morning.
"I was devastated to find my children dead on my
return," the traumatised mother of three of the
children, Siphiwe Dube told the Chronicle.