Slain Tanzanian opposition figure beaten, doused with acid: Party
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Body of Ali Mohamed Kibao, who was removed from a bus by armed men, found with signs he had been beaten, Chadema says.
An initial investigation into the killing of a senior opposition official in Tanzania has found that he was beaten and doused with acid, according to his party.
The body of Ali Mohamed Kibao, a member of the secretariat of the main opposition Chadema party, was found on Saturday, a day after two armed men forced him off a bus heading from Dar-es-Salaam to the northeastern port city of Tanga, party chairman Freeman Mbowe said on Sunday.
“The [preliminary] post-mortem has been done and it is obvious that Ali Kibao has been killed after being severely beaten and even having acid poured on his face,” Mbowe told journalists, adding that a full autopsy report was expected on Monday.
“We cannot allow our people to continue disappearing or being killed like this,” he said.
He added that several other party officials had also gone missing, without giving details.
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