About 2,000 people gathered in Bulawayo on Tuesday for the funeral of a Zimbabwean woman and her two daughters who were murdered in their home in Britain last month.

Police discovered the bodies of Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 15-year-old Natalie and 5-year-old Nala at their home north of London, after their family reported they could not reach them.

After fleeing the UK, Zimbabwe-born Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma was arrested in South Africa on 10 July on suspicion of murdering his wife and two children.

He remains in custody there as the authorities consider a request to extradite him.

An inquest into their deaths conducted in Britain found that Nothabo and her daughters had died from blunt force trauma.