There was
pandemonium in the Chilombo area of Kaoma District in Mangango constituency 3Km
across Luena River on the Kaoma-Kasempa Trunk Road, Zambia yesterday after a
strange coffin was reported to have refused to be buried.
According to
reports, drama started when the body arrived at the local New Apostolic Church
for service in the morning in Chilombo area of Kaoma District in Mangango
constituency.
The coffin
was reported to have refused burial in the traditional practice known to the
Kaonde people as “Kikondo”
The coffin is
said to have refused to enter the church building upon being removed from the
canter and instead led its bearers to a house and plunged it through the window
breaking glass panes and lodged inside the house.
The police
were called to the scene as it was already getting intense and the villagers
were being aggravated by the developing event. The police had to intervene by
firing tear gas canisters to control the irate mob.
According to
Kaoma District Commissioner, Kennedy Liale Mubanga, it took the reinforcement
of soldiers who were led by the Battalion Commander from the 5ZR army barracks
who went to retrieve the coffin and a forced burial was ordered by the DC in
the afternoon.
The deceased is named
Lilian Kanunga, female aged 47, unmarried of Kalyangu village in the same area.
This is according to a
press statement made available to Radio Cheke FM News by Kaoma District
Commissioner, Kennedy Liale Mubanga today.
This sounds like a scene
from a movie, but it is an incident that has been reported in different part of
Africa.
In a similar occurrence
that happened in May 2017 in a Zambian village, a corpse refused to be buried
until it led villagers to the house of its killer.
An official with the Zambia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hagra Tembo, shared the video on his Facebook
wall.
Tembo wrote:
“A body refused to be
buried until it took villagers to a house where the person behind the death of
the deceased resides.”
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