
According to police investigations are under way.
Three bodies were discovered on Monday morning in the communes of Buganda and Bukinanyana in Cibitoke province (north-west Burundi), and the circumstances in which two of them died are not yet known.
The third victim was decapitated by her assailants, who also raped her. The police have arrested four suspects in the Bukinanyana case. All are Imbonerakure (members of the CNDD-FDD youth league).
In the case of Buganda, two bodies were found on the Ruhagarika hill.
“These two bodies were discovered on the banks of the Rusizi River (separating Burundi and the DRC). We believe that the victims drowned in the river before their bodies were brought here,” said a local elected official, who mentioned a significant increase in the flow of the Rusizi recently.
The two bodies have not been identified.
In Bukinanyana, the body of 17-year-old Emelyne Nishimwe was found not far from a hotel in the locality of Myave.
“She was decapitated after being sexually assaulted by her torturers”, say police sources.
The local administrator confirms this information and states that “I gave the order to bury her body after searching for her head, to no avail”.
Four members of the presidential party’s youth league were arrested by police on the orders of the local administration as part of an ongoing investigation.