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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—copyright; DAr ES SALAAM, May 2. A village executive officer; his clerk and three messengers have been arrested and charged with murder hear Mwanza, in northern Tanzania, where 13 people died overnight from suffocation in a crowded prison cell. The news of their arrest was announced as Tanzania’s Second Vice-President (Mr Rashida Kawana) arrived In Mwanza with a powerful team to investigate the deaths. Sports events and national May Day festivities were cancelled when the National Union of Tanganyika Workers, the largest union in the country, went Into mourning. The country’s main May Day rally was halted for a minute’s silence for the dead.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31669, 3 May 1968, Page 11
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