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Family flabbergasted as `daughter` they buried resurfaces
2008-01-03 09:00:29
By Benny Mwaipaja, PST
The family of Alberto Gindo (41), a resident of Kiwira township in Mbeya Region, experienced immense shock and surprise after realising that the body of the girl they had buried was not their daughter`s.
The family was struck with awe and disbelief a day after the burial when their daughter, Winnie Alberto (16), whom they believed to have died, walked home alive and well.
Winnie told her parents that during the days of her alleged `disappearance`, she had gone to visit a friend in Isananga, Mbeya.
Upon her return from Mbeya, she explained, she had gone to her friend`s place following refusal by her father to have her transfered to another school because Lubala Secondary School in Rungwe District where she was schooling was believed to have demons.
Mbeya Regional Police Commander Suleiman Kova said in a press report recently that the girl`s father had reported the disappearance of her form-three daughter to Kiwira police post on December 26, last year.
Kova explained that on December 30, last year, the old man received a report that the body of a dead girl had been found beside Kiwira river.
Alberto went to the scene and allegedly identified the body as that of her daughter.
``After all medical formalities at Makandana Rungwe District Hospital were complete, the body was handed over to her family for burial.
But in a surprising twist of events, the girl believed to have died caused unprecendented commotion and confusion when she `surfaced` on December 31, last year, as her mourning was in progress,` said Kova.
Kova narrated that after the situation returned to normal, Winnie explained that she had gone to visit a friend at Isananga in Mbeya municipality following her father`s refusal for transfer her to another school.
The police commander said that after the incident, the family, in collaboration with the police, had to exhume the buried body believed to have died from stabbing with a sharp object in the neck.
The body was yet to be identified.
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