Tanzania, June 16 -- Siha. Tension disrupted the burial of a young man in Siha District, Kilimanjaro Region, after a group of bodaboda riders allegedly blocked the proceedings and placed a coffin carrying the deceased on the District Commissioner's vehicle while demanding the release of colleagues arrested by police.

The incident involved Emmanuel Mwandry, a resident of Ngirinyi village in Nasai Ward, whose burial was interrupted after unrest broke out among mourners and bodaboda riders.

The riders were reportedly protesting the arrest of some of their colleagues earlier on June 16 while they were travelling in a convoy to the zonal referral hospital, KCMC, to collect Mwandry's body.

Mwandry died on June 12 in an incident at Uuwo area ...