Police in Kasungu are keeping in custody a man who was caught allegedly trying to exhume bones of a dead person from Chayamba graveyard in the area of chief Kaomba, Gundani village in the district.
According to reports, grave diggers were on the other side digging a grave for a person who had just died when they that on the other side there was a man doing a similar job only that he was removing soil from an already made tomb.
According to group village headman Gundani, the man was armed with a shovel which he was using to remove the soil form the tomb.
The GVH says the aim behind the suspect’s alleged action remains unknown.
“The grave diggers were digging a fresh grave for another dead person on one side when they were informed that a man was destroying a tomb on the other side,” she.
Police are yet to charge the man with an offense before proceeding to court with him.
