A 12-year-old-boy has allegedly been shot dead by his uncle on a farm and secretly buried the same day under the cover of darkness at Mankuma, a suburb of Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District in the Savannah Region.
Sources in the Community revealed that on Sunday, 29th October 2022, the mother of the deceased (name withheld) left him under the care of his (deceased) uncle who later picked him up on a motorcycle to the farm with a locally manufactured gun fully loaded.
The statement indicated that the deceased’s uncle later returned home with information that the boy climbed a tree, fell and broke his neck resulting in instant death.
The corpse, which was later smuggled into town the same day, also as part of a cover-up by the uncle, was not bathed before burial because the mark of the bullet that passed through the deceased’s back to the neck would have exposed the suspect (deceased uncle).
But checks at the Savannah Regional Police command revealed it had no idea about the incident at Makuma.