Zambia: Birthday Horror

A RETIRED colonel and practising lawyer of Lusaka has allegedly shot dead his wife during her birthday party and is believed to have been severely beaten up by one of his enraged children after seeing the mother in a pool of blood.

Col Paul Banda, who is a practising lawyer and owner of the law firm Paul Pandala Banda and Company, based in Rhodes Park area of Lusaka, is currently admitted to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, where his condition is said to be unstable.

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