Police in Mazabuka have arrested a woman of High Landers Compound after she allegedly stabbed her husband multiple times using a knife, following a domestic dispute.

Yvonne Ng’andu allegedly stabbed her husband Muhau Wamundila, 44, in the abdomen and legs and is now nursing serious wounds in Mazabuka General Hospital.

The victim’s father-in-law alleges that the couple has been having marital disputes which started when the man brought traditional herbs for his wife’s breathing challenges but the medicine happened to be poisonous, leading to her continuous scratching.