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A World Health Organisation official in Bujumbura denied on Thursday reports that a local administrative staff member, Gertrude Nyamoya, had been arrested in connection with the death of the organisation's former Burundi representative, Kassi Manlan.
"It depends on what you term arrest. She has been called in for questioning," the official told IRIN.
Quoting informed sources and relatives in Bujumbura, the Panafrican News Agency, PANA, reported on Wednesday that Nyamoya had been "arrested" and was "being held" and questioned at Burundi's Special Research Office in the capital.
State Prosecutor Gerard Ngendabanda could not be reached for comment on her present status. However, PANA quoted Nyamoya's brother, Prime Nyamoya, as saying on Wednesday that his sister's lawyers had not been allowed to be present during her interrogation, and that family members were denied visits.
Police were still detaining four of Manlan's house and office guards, who had been on duty at the time of his death, PANA reported. Fishermen on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika found Manlan's body on 20 November close to a lakeside restaurant in Bujumbura. He had left home earlier that morning for a jog.
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