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Four children clubbed to death
2007-09-20 10:06:50
By Emmanuel Chacha, Mwanza
Four children of the same family were on Tuesday clubbed to death by unidentified people as they slept in their house at Igumagombo in Kwimba District, Mwanza Region
Mwanza Regional Police Commander Zelothe Stephen said yesterday that the children were left alone in the house after their mother, Mektrida Anthony, went to a neighbouring village to take part in a traditional dance.
The father, Daudi Lusindiga, was in his second wife`s house kilometers away as the children were murdered.
The RPC said the murderers invaded the children`s hut and clubbed them to death one after another before disappearing without trace.
He named the children as Leonard Daudi (12), Joseph Daudi (8) Emmanuel Daudi (4) and Nkama Daudi (14), all pupils at the local Igumagombo Primary School.
A step sister, Rahel Daudi (8), discovered their crushed bodies when she entered the hut to tell the children to join her on the way to school.
She said when she arrived at the hut, she knocked on the door repeatedly but there was no response. She then forced her way in, only to find all four dead.
RPC Stephen said then the young girl ran back to her house to report what had happened, adding that police are holding two people in connection with the grisly incident.
He named those arrested as Kulwa Luhende (40) and Simon Seng’enge (46), both from the same village.
``Our crime investigators have been dispatched to the area to make sure that all those involved are arrested,`` said the RPC.
He explained that preliminary investigations showed that the dead children`s mother, Mektrida, had sexual relations with Kulwa Luhende which had resulted in the birth of one child.
Luhende once fought with Lusindiga over Mektrida in a brawl in which Luhende lost two teeth, according to the regional police chief.
Meanwhile, police in Sengerema district are looking for Bernard Lumala over the killing of his father in an incident linked to belief in witchcraft.
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