Tanzania, July 25 -- Mwanza. Tension erupted at the Sekou Toure Regional Referral Hospital in Mwanza on Friday, July 24, 2026, after relatives of the late Wambura Mumbiya, 54, became embroiled in a dispute over where and by whom he should be buried.

The confrontation unfolded after the deceased's first wife, Ms Elizabeth Nyakao, learnt that her husband's relatives were planning to bury him at the home of his second wife, a move she strongly opposed.

Speaking outside the hospital, Ms Nyakao said she had lived with her husband for 32 years before he distanced himself from their family over the past five years.

She accused her in-laws of insisting that Mr Mumbiya be buried at the second wife's home, saying she had never even met the woman...