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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Hundreds of mourners turned up at the home of Mr David Mtuwa in Dar es Salaam yesterday to pay their last respects to five family members who lost their lives during a stampede at Uhuru Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Christian (11), Michelle (8), Nathan (6), Natalia (5), Suzan Ndana Mtuwa (30s) and a housemaid Anita Mfikwa (27) died as they went to pay their last respects to the body of former President John Magufuli.<\/p>\n

The five bodies with the exception of that of Anita, were buried at David Mtuwa\u2019s home ground, a grandfather of the four dead-children and a father-in-law of Suzy where the whole family resides.<\/p>\n

It was a hard time for Mr Denis Mtuwa as he sought to narrate the ordeal that his two sons (Nathan and Natalia) and his wife Suzan went through before they breathed their last on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI married Suzan in 2011 and got our first born, Nathan in 2013. Our second child, Natalia, was born in 2014 and our last born in 2018. I have also lived with our housemaid, Anita, since 2013 until her death,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The vividly sorrowful Mr Denis said after being informed that his wife and family were hospitalised at Temeke Referral Hospital he rushed there.<\/p>\n

While there, he searched in the emergency room and patients\u2019 wards, but he could not find them and was thus told to go and search in the morgue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI entered the mortuary and found many dead bodies on the ground. I started searching and managed to see the body of my son Nathan, lying on the floor and then my wife (Suzan). I was shocked and felt bad seeing them lying on the floor dead with some injuries on parts of their bodies,\u201d he narrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t find the others on the floor and decided to open the morgue\u2019s fridges where I found the other three bodies (Natalia, Christian and Michelle) all having bruises on their skins.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation seems like people had stepped on their bodies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Anita (housemaid) was nowhere to be found until the two next days where she was found dead at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH).<\/p>\n

\u201cI contacted her parents and let them decide on when and where she will be laid to rest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

READ:<\/b><\/p>\n

Family loses five members at Magufuli\u2019s farewell<\/p>\n

Leading a funeral mass, Pastor Wilbroad Mastai of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania at Kimara warned people against concluding that the Mtuwa family had behaved recklessly for taking the children to Uhuru Stadium where thousands of Dar es Salaam residents paid their last respects to Dr Magufuli\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Pastor Mastai said every death had a reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no human being who can choose to die or run away from death\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is only God who decides when and how.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t judge why they died there because not all who went there died,\u201d he preached.<\/p>\n

Being his first experience to lead the funeral mass of five bodies at once in his 20 years of service, Pastor Mastai asked the parents, relatives and friends gathered to pay their last respects to the deceased ones, remain calm and pray.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how it pains to lose the people you cherish the most, but it is true that they won\u2019t come back. You must live your lives cherishing the best moments you spent with them before they died,\u201d he preached.<\/p>\n

Head teacher of Jerusalem Primary School where Nathan, Michelle and Natalia were schooling Daphne Msangi said the three will be remembered for their participation in various school events with Suzan being remembered for selling cakes during ceremonial events.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur school, owned by the Lutheran church, was established in 2018 and the three were among the first students. The majority of teachers and workers know them, so it will be hard to forget them,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Government officers, including the Ubungo District Commissioner Kisare Makori and Member of Parliament for Kibamba constituency Issa Mtemvu also attended the funeral.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received the information of this tragic loss when I was in Dodoma waiting for the body of the late Magufuli.<\/p>\n

\u201cI contacted people in my office to rush here and assist the family,\u201d said Mr Mtemvu.<\/p>\n

He cancelled his trip to Chato to pay his last respect to Dr Magufuli and came back to mourn the death of the six people and lay them to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. Hundreds of mourners turned up at the home of Mr David Mtuwa in Dar es Salaam yesterday to pay their last respects to five family members who lost their lives during a stampede at Uhuru Stadium on Sunday. 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