15 people suspected to be Somalian nationals have died in a containerised truck on the pedicle road in an apparent case of human trafficking gone wrong.
The Truck registered AFB 496 from Kasama was carrying over 50 Somalians suspected to be trafficked from Tanzania.
The final destination of the victims is unclear at this stage.
The Truck carrying bags of beans in front but had Somalians hidden behind.
Apparently passers-by are said to have forced the driver to open the truck when they heard noises coming from the truck.
At the scene, 20 Km from Levy Mwanawasa Bridge in Chembe, bodies were found strewn on the ground and over 30 survivors narrated that they were transferred from another truck and were picked from Kasama but the new truck had no ventilation which made their colleagues suffocate to death.
The driver is detained by Police on the Congo side.
Sad, sad African Governments that fail to take care of their people and countries.
This is sad. What is going on in Africa? So they were going to Ndola where the population of somalis is increasing at a very alarming rate.
Very bad reporting. trafficked from Tanzania, but the vehicle is Zambian. Who is the driver and where is he? What did the police say. Reporting kawti kubuta sure?
This is as a result of corruption. How did they pass through the boarder? who allowed these Alshababs in the truck full of beans?
People heard noise, so where are the survivors? any interviews with survivors? who has been hospitalized among the survivors?
Who undressed these dead people and why? Thieves?
Oh my God!! This is terrible
What a long way to come to end up dumped on a roadside!
WE SHALL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS IN THESE ELECTIONS UNTIL OUR OWN, THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE HH GETS TO STATE HOUSE. VIVA HH VIVA! VIVA UPND VIVA! HH NEEDS TO COME IN TO PUT THE HOUSE IN ORDER.
These poor people. I hope they are returned home.
The people that undressed them were giving them first aid but it was too late
This is so sad, it pains me to see my African brothers suffer like this!
May Their Souls Find Eternal Peace
@Truth, how many votes are you going to cast. I thought its just one!! For that i dont see the need for you to use “WE”. You need to realize that not everyone is with you, some people are in the other camps. Lets just pray over it and wait till that time, anything can happen.
My sympathy to my departed Brothers. However this is a caution to powers that be that if our borders are this porous God help us,where was law enforcers? Do they understand the implications?
And someone with a big tummy pops up that in Zambia we are suffering… don’t mislead the people.
Never settle for mediocrity. If Somalia is your bench mark…..then you must be a very useless person. You cannot measure your country against what is basically a failed state. You have very low stands of expectation.
THIS IS TOO PAINFUL. WHO CAN WE BLAME? THESE PASSENGERS? THE TRUCK DRIVER? THE TRUCK? THE POLICE? POVERTY? THE POLITICIANS? GOD?
WHY IS THE DRIVER DETAINED IN CONGO? WHEN YOU ARE SAYING THIS HAPPENED IN CHEMBE 20KM AWAY FROM LM BRIDGE. THERE IS A POLICE STATION IN CHEMBE. AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT PEDICLE WHICH IS IN CONGO. SO WHERE DID THIS OCCUR? OR WHERE WERE THE PICTURES TAKEN FROM?
THIS IS MASS MURDER
Confirmed…The truck belongs to GBM on a normal business trip to deliver goods to a shop in Luapula..
Shame, Africa get put your sh$t together….too much pain and suffering for humanity
Zambians too will start a journey like this if this violence am seeing towards elections is not contained. wake up Zambia, Somalia started just like Zambia is behaving right now. Stop the violence, no political party is bigger than Zambia
Iwe chi Do Wrong that is what you want but it wont happen God forbid…it is hate mongers and bitter people like you and your fellow extremist UPND followers of Lucifer that will rejoice if Zambia falls into such a state.. Why what is wrong with you chaps kanshi???…you need to have your brains checked at Chainama hopeless and mindless cretin you are!!! Us we are for peace for all Zambians-North, South, West, East and Central Peaceful Friends (PF) for all Zambians !!!
#HUNGRYHYENA(HH)MUSTFALLFORTHE5THTIME
2016 ECL NAFUTI
If I may count,those bodies are more than 15 mweee.zambian reporting kwena.
Why are they undressed – some with their undies slightly yanked down? Who did that and for what? Where were they heading to, according to immigration records? Who handled this truck…? All this will just disappear especially as is usual in Afrika, if the trafficker is a well known business man or politician. What a beautiful continent with such USELESS governance.
They are more than 15 meaning the these are not real pictures
What a sad development, Ali Nadin would say they committed genocide.
SAD SAD
This is very sad!…. There are certainly more than fifteen bodies, unless some of them were still gasping for air when the pictures were taken …. AFRICA TWAPAPATA
Cry my beloved Africa, people seeking solace in Zambia and we Zambians are busy complaining that we are suffering. God bless Zambia, may the souls of the departed Rest In Eternal Peace.
It is relative. Greeks are suffering but they are much better than Zambians. Never settle for mediocrity.
GOD HELP US THIS IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL CHRISTIANS PLEASE THIS
IS THE TIME WE NEED TO START PRAYING
This happened in CONGO. Pedicle road. So the Congolese Police came of course.
Too bad indeed.SEE FOR YOURSELVES ZAMBIANS HOW MANY AFRICANS SUFFER!!NOW CAN TONGA MAN HH COMPARE US ZAMBIANS TO THIS?NEVER!!!TODAY HE WAS IN RADIO PHOENIX CLAIMING THAT ZAMBIANS ARE CRYING AT “NJALA NJALA BA HH”,WHEN IN FACTS ITS HIS UNPAID WORKERS ANS HIS FARM WHO COMPLAIN DAILY!!!may President Edgar Lungu send officers to go and help our brothers and then help put to rest those who have passed away because who claim to be rich(hh and gbm) cannot go and spend a ngwee there!!
Too bad for our brothers to die like this. Let us help one another dear brothers.
Zambia why do you transport Somali citizens in a container .do want Somali to wage WAR on your country and you know wrath Somali inflicts on Nations that threaten their citizens . rats are playing with lions -ASK ETHIOPIA AND KENYA OUR NEIGHBORS THE DANGEROUS SOMALIA IS IF YOU TOUCH THEIR NOSE!!!!!!!- WILL RUN OVER COUNTRY IF CUBA AND SOVIETS DID NOT RESCUE YOU WITH THEIR MASSIVE WEAPONS.
Bantus should Somalis us as heroes of Africa and treat it is citizens with dignity and humane mind.
we want Zambia to pay the blood of those massacred