Balaka Police have arrested four people, including three workers at Kangamkunde Mining Site, for allegedly stealing nearly 70 litres of diesel from an operational vehicles.
According to Police Public Relations Officer for Balaka Gladson M’bumpha the suspects have been identified as security guard Austin Josam (35), a supervisor at the site Benjamin Nkhoma (57), a grader checker Kondwani Nkhoma (25) and fuel vendor Ephraim Ntogola (32).
M’bumpha said the suspects were arrested during an operation at around 1am today at the mining site in the area of Traditional Authority Chanthunya following a tip-off from security guards that some workers had allegedly connived with a fuel vendor to steal diesel from the site.
He said Police detectives caught the suspects during the operation as a dump truck driver was allegedly siphoning diesel into containers and supplying it to the fuel vendor, but the driver escaped after sensing danger.
Police recovered nearly 70 litres of diesel at the place where the suspects were found committing the crime.
According to Police the four suspects are expected to appear in court soon.
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