The deceased, Lameck
The Malawi Defence Force soldiers and Malawi Police officers have been involved in a cat-and-mouse chase in the old Capital Zomba.
Malawi24 reporter on the scene saw some MDF soldiers roughing up Police Officers who were providing security at the Spar Shop which has Standard Bank ATM machine which is a hundred meters from the city’s bus deport.
The police officers were given refuge in the Spar Shop which was locked the moment they went in.
The overpowered officers had to be be whisked away a few minutes later by other Police Officers who came to their rescue in a Toyota Land Cruiser.
This development follows the fatal shooting of a Malawi Army soldier, Price Lameck who was deployed at Cobbe Barracks in Zomba.
Lameck was shot dead in the wee hours of Sunday by police officers who were patrolling the streets of Zomba City.
The deceased was coming from a beer drinking joint with his in-law and met police who were on patrol just close to Zomba People’s Metrol shop
The crime crime scene where Lameck was shot
The police then started confronting the soldier and confiscated two bottles of liquor he carried until a fight erupted with the in law being a spectator.
It is said one of the officers then fired a warning shot into the air which did not scare Lameck off. The deceased continued fighting with the patrolling officers until when one officer (name withheld) shot him on the chest.
He then crawled and collapsed at a nearby tree close to the Tachirani Pharmacy. He was pronounced dead at the Zomba Central Hospital.
Reports reaching Malawi indicate that the tension was rising in Mzuzu where Army officers were scene all over the city.