Lupane senior cop dies in crash

A SENIOR police officer was on Monday night killed while five passengers were injured, one of them critically, when the vehicle he was driving side swiped a Bakers Inn truck, resulting in his vehicle overturning.

Matabeleland North provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Siphiwe Makonese yesterday said the deceased cop was Chief Inspector Patrick Haruzivishe, the officer-in-charge at Lupane Police Station.

“Chief Inspector Haruzivishe was driving towards Lupane along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway, driving a police Defender truck,” she said.

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