Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton
Mundembe confirmed the case.
“I can confirm that we received a report of a mistaken body
that was buried in Bindura and paperwork is in progress to exhume the body,”
Mundembe said.
There was drama at Bindura cemetery when a family from
Nyanga came to claim the body of their deceased relative, Robert Machemedze,
who had already been buried after being mistaken for Taurai Batsirai.
Machemedze and Batsirai died in separate road accidents on
May 9, and their bodies were taken for post-mortem in Harare and then kept in
the mortuary at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital.
Batsirai died in an accident in Harare, while Machemedze
also succumbed from injuries sustained in a road accident along the
Bindura-Shamva Highway.
But on Monday, Batsirai’s girlfriend, Tariro Sithole, is
alleged to have wrongly identified the body of her boyfriend, leading to the
burial of the wrong corpse.
When the Machemedze family went to collect their relative’s
body, a family member, Isaac Machemedze, immediately realised that the body
shown to them did not belong to their relative.
They filed a police report and investigations revealed
their relative’s body had been taken to Bindura. They went to Bindura and found
their relative already buried.
Machemedze’s body was eventually exhumed yesterday and
taken to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals ahead of its reburial on a date yet to
be advised. Newsday
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