human rights commission in Zambia sends a team of investigators to Mansa

THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION HAS SENT A TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS TO MANSA TO UNCOVER THE CAUSE OF THE KILLINGS OF THREE PEOPLE EARLIER THIS WEEK.

SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW WITH RADIO PHOENIX TODAY, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SPOKESPERSON SAMUEL KANSANKA STATED THAT A TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS HAS BEEN SENT TO MANSA TO FIND OUT THE CAUSE OF THE KILLINGS.

TWO ZAMBIANS AND A CONGOLESE NATIONAL HAD CAR TYRES AND PLASTIC BAGS HUNG AROUND THEIR BODIES BEFORE BEING SET ABLAZE BY IRATE MANSA RESIDENTS EARLIER THIS WEEK AFTER RUMOURS WENT ROUND  THAT LOCAL BUSINESS PEOPLE HAD HIRED RITUAL KILLERS TO ABDUCT CHILDREN AND USE THEIR BODY PARTS TO MAKE CHARMS THAT WOULD BOOST THEIR WEALTH.
POLICE HOWEVER REFUTED THE REPORTS BUT RESIDENTS LAUNCHED A MANHUNT TARGETING LOCAL BUSINESSES, SOME OF WHICH WERE BROKEN INTO, LOOTED AND BURNED.

MR. KANSANKA HOWEVER COULD NOT GIVE FULL DETAILS ON THE INVESTIGATIONS BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN MANSA STATING THAT ONLY WHEN THE OFFICERS ARE DONE WITH THE PROBING WILL THEY PROVIDE FULL INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC.

SANAULA IBRAHIM, THE ONLY INDIAN BUSINESSMAN IN MANSA, WAS ALSO IMPLICATED IN THE RITUAL MURDERS AND TARGETED, BUT MANAGED TO ESCAPE BEFORE PROTESTERS BROKE INTO AND LOOTED HIS CHAIN OF FIVE SHOPS, AND SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE.
FRANCIS KABONDE, INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE ZAMBIA POLICE SERVICE, DISMISSED THE RUMOURS OF RITUAL KILLINGS AS UNFOUNDED AND WARNED THAT RIOTERS WOULD BE BROUGHT TO BOOK.

THE POLICE HAVE SINCE PICKED UP OVER 70 SUSPECTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIOTS.

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