{"id":7771,"date":"2025-07-17T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:04:24","slug":"young-bulawayo-man-dies-after-ingesting-rat-poison-following-domestic-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=7771","title":{"rendered":"Young Bulawayo Man Dies After Ingesting Rat Poison Following Domestic Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Prominance Sinomusa Khumalo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have confirmed the death of 21-year-old Cowdray Park resident Thabiso Ndlovu, who ingested rat poison following an argument with his mother on 12 July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an official police statement released by Bulawayo Province Press and Public Relations Officer Inspector Nomalanga Msebele, the incident occurred around 1:00 PM when Ndlovu&#8217;s mother (41) admonished him for spilling two liters of cooking oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The deceased became agitated after the warning and consumed rat poison,&#8221; stated Inspector Msebele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;His mother witnessed him vomiting and immediately sought clarification, upon which he confirmed ingesting the poison.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency services transported Ndlovu to Mpilo Central Hospital where he was admitted. Tragically, hospital authorities contacted his mother at 5:40 AM on 14 July 2025 to inform her of his passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The police are treating this as a sudden death by poisoning case,&#8221; confirmed Inspector Msebele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the incident are standard procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominance Sinomusa Khumalo Police have confirmed the death of 21-year-old Cowdray Park resident Thabiso Ndlovu, who ingested rat poison following an argument with his mother on 12 July 2025. According&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}