Electronic News from Zambia

Date: 05/06/97

SATANISTS UNDER INVESTIGATION

Kabwe

POLICE in Kabwe have sent the skull and bones which they retrieved from the Masonic building in Kabwe yesterday to the University Teaching for scientific examination.

Central Province police chief, Nungu Sassassali, said today that boneswhich are believed to be relics of Satanists wer sent to the UTH for a forensic examination so they can be determined whether they are human or not.

Mr Sassassali says police have already interviewed the three suspects who were picked up from the Masonic Building and are carrying out even further envestigations in the case.

The three were picked up in the morning on Wednesday when police raided the Masonic building after a tip-off from members of the public that it was being used as a temple for Satanists.

There was pandamonium in Kabwe town when the alleged Satanists were taken to the police station as enraged Christian sysmpathisers wanted to lynch them right there and then.

Police had to protect the 'Satanists' by firing in the air and lobbying tear-gas canisters into the milling increasingly hostile crowd.

Source: ZAMTODAY