BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA A MYSTERIOUS fire on Saturday morning razed down the homestead of Thanks Makore, a suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Tapiwa Makore, in Nyamutumbu area in Murewa.
Thanks, is also a twin brother to Tapiwa Makore (Snr), who is currently in remand prison for allegedly ordering the death of the boy allegedly for ritual purposes.
When NewsDay visited the homestead, a kitchen hut and a gazebo had been reduced to ashes with police investigating the incident.
The fire occurred after Makore had been granted $10 000 bail by Justice Tawanda Chitapi in Harare.
The fire also follows another incident in which Tapiwa Makore (Snr) had his kitchen hut gutted by fire recently.
A neighbour and Makore’s elder brother Shadrack said he was alerted of the incident by his nephew Shaw Munanga.
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“My nephew who stays at Thanks’ homestead woke me up at around midnight telling me that the home was on fire. I woke up and noticed that the hut and gazebo were being destroyed by the raging fire.
“It is shocking. Remember it is barely a month since we witnessed my brother Tapiwa’s hut being destroyed in an inferno,” he said.
Efforts to get a comment from Mashonaland East provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza were fruitless yesterday.
However, a team of police officers from the Central Investigations Department forensic department were at the homestead on Saturday.
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