34 year old Zomba based businessman, Billy Chatepa, has passed away after he drowned.

It has been reported that Chatepa drowned at Hippo View Lodge in Liwonde where he went to take some time off from his business. It was in the swimming pool of Hippo view that he drowned.

Efforts to resuscitate him on the scene proved futile and he was rushed to Machinga district hospital where he was pronounced dead already.

Chatepa was one of the successful and young businesspersons in Malawi.