ZESCO PLAYERS IN FATAL CRASH

MBABANE – Zambia’s CAF Champions League 2015 side Zesco United have been dealt a huge blow ahead of their first leg encounter with Mbabane Swallows in the continental club tournament in February.

This follows a tragic road accident on December 16, 2014, that involved their executive bus carrying players and secretariat staff to a pre-training camp for their national team Chipolopolo in Zambia that killed their driver on the spot. National team defender Nyambe Mulenga and two other players in Changwe Kalale (Power Dynamos) and Satchimo Chakawa (with Zesco for negotiations) sustained serious injuries. This was before the CAF draw was conducted.

Mulenga, according to reports coming from Zambia, is already out of the AFCON 2015 after he had surgery on his right leg at the Lusaka Trust Hospital but is in stable condition. Zesco star Changwe Kalale sustained a spine injury that left him paralysed from the waist down, also had a right broken thigh and leg but his condition was described as stable and admitted to the University Teaching Hospital.

The other player Chakawa sustained a raptured spleen and was admitted to the Kabwe General Hospital. The team’s media statement made two days after the accident which was a head-on collision with a Toyota Prado whose occupants also died said there were eight survivors who were all receiving treatment but in a stable condition.

The club’s PRO, Katebe Chengo, confirmed the sad news and injuries adding that their staff was also seriously injured while they lost their bus driver Mwiza Ndovi who was laid to rest on December 18.

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