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Four suspects arrested for death of WHO official

    BUJUMBURA

    Burundi police arrested four more people on Friday suspected of killing of the World Health Organization representative in the country, Dr Kassi Manlan.

    The suspects are the deputy administrator of the immigration police, Gerard Ntunzwenayo; an official at the government intelligence services, Jaffet Nahimana; the commander of the national police, Emile Manisha; and the commander of the traffic police, Sylvestre Manirakiza. They were taken immediately to the public prosecutor for questioning.

    Manlan, an Ivorian doctor, was killed on 19 November 2001. Fishermen found his body on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika the following day close to a restaurant in Bujumbura, the capital. He had left home the day he was killed for a morning jog.

    Immediately after his body was discovered, six persons were arrested, among them his assistant Gertrude Nyamoya, and his house and office guards.

    Manlan, a specialist in hepato-gastroenterology, assumed his position in Burundi the same year he died.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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