Police have charged a kombi driver and conductor with culpable homicide after seven young learners died in a devastating vehicle fire near Matongo Primary School in Gweru. Investigations linked the blaze to a petrol container carried inside the omnibus.

Police have arrested four Harare City Council officials in connection with the deaths of three Budiriro residents who drowned after falling into an open sewer sludge pit. Investigations are continuing.

Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe says criminal investigations are underway after three people drowned in an unsecured sewer trench in Budiriro, with council workers potentially facing culpable homicide charges.