A GWANDA woman was hospitalised with serious burns after fire gutted a block of rooms at the Old Gwanda Police Camp on Saturday night.
ALBERT NCUBE OWN CORRESPONDENT
Three rooms were extensively damaged and household property worth thousands of dollars destroyed in the inferno.
Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire but it is suspected that it was triggered by an electrical fault. Fire fighters only managed to put out the flames after the fire had destroyed the rooms.
Household property that included beds, stoves and televisions was completely destroyed by the blaze.
Gwanda Town Council does not have a fire tender and fireman have to tow a water bowser each time they have to attend to a fire and this has resulted in losses in property.
Meanwhile, a two-year-old girl died on Friday from injuries she sustained after being run over by a reversing neighbour’s car at the New Gwanda Police camp.
The driver of the vehicle, who was identified as a policeman, is said to have failed to look out for any possible danger when he reversed his car and knocked down the girl.
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