Nduta (Tanzania) : discovery of a body not yet identified

A corpse of a man aged about forty years was placed in the morgue of the district of Kibondo in the region of Kigoma (northwest Tanzania). He was found at the camp of Nduta but has not yet been identified. Two women were arrested as part of an ongoing police investigation. INFO SOS Médias Burundi

This body was seen on the morning of this Tuesday by passers-by at the northern end of zone 8, village 22, bordering with villages of Tanzanians of the “Baha” community.

“He had no injuries except traces of blood in his nose. This man was apparently strangled during the night from Monday to Tuesday,” eyewitnesses of the macabre discovery explained.

Police tried to identify him, in vain. “All the refugees in this village were called to see if anyone could recognize him, without success. He may not be a refugee from here in any case,” Burundian refugees in Nduta said.

Next to the body, there was a bag filled with small fish weighing at least ½ kg and documents written in a Tanzanian dialect “Igiha” close to Kirundi, the national language of Burundi.

Two women who immediately alerted the police were also transferred to a police cell after their arrest. And the body was placed in the morgue of the Kibondo district hospital awaiting results of an autopsy that could reveal the identity and circumstances of the death of the deceased.

The discovery of corpses is not common in Nduta, hence refugees are calling on the police to shed light on this case.

Nduta is the largest Burundian refugee camp, hosting more than 60,000 people. Its occupants mostly fled the 2015 crisis that was triggered by another controversial term of the late President Pierre Nkurunziza the same year.