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Amanda Chikari, Midlands Reporter
POLICE in Gweru are appealing to people to help identify a man whose dismembered body was discovered after he allegedly threw himself in front of a moving train and was crushed to death.

According to police sources, the remains were discovered by a passerby on a railway line near Fairmile Hotel in Gweru last Friday at around 7AM.

The passerby then informed traffic police officers who were at a roadblock along Gweru- Bulawayo road.

A Chronicle news crew visited the scene about an hour after the body had been found.  At that time police officers were picking up the man’s remains at the railway line.

“We attended the scene after we got communication from fellow officers working at a roadblock near Fairmile that a dismembered body had been discovered. We are not sure as to what could have transpired but all what remains are body parts which were all over the area as a result of the crash,” said the police source on condition of anonymity.

He said the man who had no identification particulars was wearing a white shirt, brown trousers and a brown jacket.

Efforts to get a comment from Midlands provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende were fruitless as she was said to be out of office.

Her mobile phone was not reachable.

@Amanda49