FIVE BURIED ALIVE IN SOLWEZI

Five people have died after a trench wall they were digging collapsed on them in Solwezi Saturday.
Both Northwestern province Commissioner of Police Hudson Namachila and Solwezi District Commissioner Rosemary Kamalonga have confirmed the incident to ZANIS.
Mr Namachila said the five were among the nine Jaward Investments casual workers who were contracted by Northwestern Water Supply and Sewerage Company to dig trenches for sewer pipes around Solwezi Boys Technical Secondary School area.
He said the five were about 4.5 metres underground when the wall collapsed and buried them alive.
Mr Namachila said four bodies have been dug out while the search for the fifth one continues.