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Tanzania doctor describes bodies taken from morgue as fresh protests loom

Protesters use different materials to build barricades and block a road as clashes erupt in Dar es Salaam on October 29, 2025, during Tanzania’s presidential elections. [AFP]

After Western officials accused Tanzania of removing the bodies of those killed during election protests, a doctor has told AFP of hundreds of patients and corpses being taken from his hospital to secret locations, fuelling calls for more demonstrations on Tuesday.

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