{"id":186026,"date":"2024-12-06T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cemetery-owner-grave-diggers-arrested-in-burial-space-scam-group-exhumed-380-corpses-dumped-them-in-dam-trench-and-resold-graves\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:09:39","slug":"zimbabwe-cemetery-owner-grave-diggers-arrested-in-burial-space-scam-group-exhumed-380-corpses-dumped-them-in-dam-trench-and-resold-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cemetery-owner-grave-diggers-arrested-in-burial-space-scam-group-exhumed-380-corpses-dumped-them-in-dam-trench-and-resold-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Cemetery Owner, Grave Diggers Arrested in Burial Space Scam &#8211; Group Exhumed 380 Corpses, Dumped Them in Dam Trench and Resold Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Edwin Muronzi, owner of a private cemetery, Restland Memorial Park and three grave diggers have been arrested for illegally exhuming about 380 corpses in the past nine years, dumping them in a dam trench before reselling the used graves to other unsuspecting bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Restland Memorial Park is located along Kirkman Road in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest of the kingpin Muronzi and his employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;The ZRP confirms&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Muronzi, owner of a private cemetery, Restland Memorial Park and three grave diggers have been arrested for illegally exhuming about 380 corpses in the past nine years, dumping them in a dam trench before reselling the used graves to other unsuspecting bereaved families. Restland Memorial Park is located along Kirkman Road in Harare. Zimbabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4304,10033,7173,12294,7146,20120,17271,24907,11331,24966,5192,257,12472,50119,13731,254,5215,50118,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-burial","tag-cemetery","tag-corpses","tag-dam","tag-diggers","tag-dumped","tag-exhumed","tag-grave","tag-graves","tag-group","tag-news","tag-owner","tag-resold","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-trench","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}