Ugly face of circumcision: Teenage boy dies after being circumcised

Nine-year old boy is reported dead in Kasungu while in an initiation camp commonly referred to as Jando (traditional male circumcision).

Kasungu Police spokesperson Edna Mzingwitsa confirmed of the development in an interview with the press and identified the boy as Julius Sayineti.
According to Mzingwitsa, the boy died of severe bleeding after the circumcision.

She said elders and parents after noticing the incident they secretly buried him without going to hospital.

“Medical personnel from Kasungu District Hospital accompanied by a team of police officers went to the village, exhumed the body and conducted a postmortem which showed the boy died of severe bleeding due to the circumcision which went wrong,” she said.

Meanwhile Police are hunting for the man who administered the circumcision on the deceased.