By REBECCA MUSHOTA and MARISA MWAPE –

A TANZANIAN business executive has been arrested in Chinsali for being in possession of hundreds of Mukula logs worth thousands of Kwacha.
Two trucks, belonging to the Tanzanian and a Zambian, laden with the logs, were impounded in the process.
Muchinga Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso said in an interview that Abdallah Switu, 39, of Dar-es-Salaam, was arrested in Chinsali and would be charged with unlawful possession of Mukula timber.
Mr Kapeso said Switu’s truck, registration number T382, was found with hundreds of Mukula logs.
A Zambian Fuso truck registration number ABX 3592 was also found with Mukula logs and was being guarded by police officers because it could not be driven from the site as it was locked.
“The Tanzanian and the Zambian who owns the other truck and many other Zambians were found loading the Mukula timber onto the trucks at Chipumba Village in Chinsali around 19:00 hours,” Mr Kapeso said.
“When police arrived at the scene, the Tanzanian was apprehended while the Zambian ran away with the keys to his vehicle together with others that were loading the timber.”
Mr Kapeso said the incident happened on Monday evening.
He said the total value of the timber was not yet known but an assessment was being carried out.
Meanwhile, a Malawian was found dead in Chama District after consuming locally-brewed wine.
Mr Kapeso said the man, Shadreck Jere, 40, of Dumbo Village in Chief Chakazi’s area in Dowa District in Malawi, was found dead in Chama around 09:00 hours on Monday.
Mr Jere crossed to the Zambian side the previous evening on a drinking spree.
He was found dead on Monday and his body is in the Chama Hospital mortuary and Malawian police have since been informed.
Elsewhere, a 23-year-old man of Kitwe died after hanging himself from a guava tree.
Joe Yambayamba of house number 139, Central Street in Nkana East, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself using a wire.
His mother Matilda Yambayamba said her son was found hanging from a guava tree near the gate around 04:00 hours yesterday.
Ms Yambayamba said from the funeral house that when she woke up in the morning, she found the kitchen door open and saw her son hanging from the tree.
“I do not know why he decided to do this but he had been complaining for some time now that he had not been sleeping because he had problems,” she said.
In another incident, a 27-year-old woman has died after being assaulted by unknown people in Chingola.
Catherine Chibale, of 404, Ghana Road in Kasompe, was assaulted on August 24 this year and was found unconscious around 06:00 hours with a deep cut on the back of her head.
Copperbelt Police Commissioner Joyce Kasosa said that Ms Chibale was admitted to Nchanga Hospital and was discharged on September 5 but that she died on Sunday at home.