AN 18 year old Chrome Picker at the Black Mountain has died on the spot after a rear left tyre of a loaded Shacman Tipper Truck ran over him near Greek Olive in Nkana West residential area in Kitwe when he fell from the truck which was moving from the Black Mountain to one of the identified sites for Chrome Pickers

A number of Chrome Pickers have been injured and admitted to Kitwe Teaching Hospital (KTH) after being run over by Tipper trucks as they tried to jump on the moving trucks so that they pick up the Chrome before it is offloaded to the four identified sites.

Copperbelt Police Commissioner Sharon Cheelo Zulu confirmed with Millennium radio that the fatal accident in which 18 year old Lombe Joshua died on the spot after being ran over by a loaded Shacman Tipper Truck registration number BCD 5538 ZM which was being driven by Simwambi Samuel aged 39 years old of Ghandi Circle in Chambishi.