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(12 Dec 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Lusaka, Zambia - 11 December 2022
1. Wide of Emirates aircraft in parking bay cargo door opening - Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
2. Wide of ground handlers unloading coffin off pallet onto truck
3. Wide of ground handlers placing coffin on back of truck
4. Various of mourners, friends and family singing waiting for coffin to arrive at cargo area
5. Wide of mourner crying and being comforted by friend
6. Wide of coffin in hearse
7. Mid of mourners
8. Mid of Lemekani Nyirenda’s twin brother being assisted by friends
9. Mid of Ian Banda, family spokesperson and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Permanent Secretary, Chembo Mbula
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Chembo Mbula, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Permanent Secretary:
"As government first and foremost we are expressing our condolences to the family on this sad occurrence where we have lost one of our nationals in very bad circumstances. As government we are still seized with the matter we are following up with the Russian government. We have not closed that matter but what was important was first to get the body back home and also to ensure the family gets some closure."
11. Wide pan from media to mourners singing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Ian Banda, family spokesperson:
"The body is being taken to the University Teaching Hospital, mortuary. The office of the state forensic pathology based at the UTH (University Teaching Hospital) shall then conduct the requisite medical death, legal death investigations in accordance and in conformity with the laws of the Republic of Zambia."
13. Various of hearse and trailer exiting through gates



STORYLINE:
The body of a 23-year-old Zambian student who died while fighting for the Russian army in the war in Ukraine has been returned home.

Lemekani Nyirenda had been studying nuclear engineering in Russia before joining the military.

His body arrived at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on Sunday.

Although he had been a student, Lemekani was convicted of drug trafficking in April 2020 and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

He was later pardoned through a special amnesty on condition that he participate in the war, and he was killed while fighting in Ukraine.

The Zambian government has requested that Russian authorities give details of what happened to Lemekani.

Family spokesperson Ian Banda said the body will be taken to the mortuary at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka where the doctors will conduct forensic pathology on the body starting Monday.

Banda said the burial program will only be announced after the pathology results have been established.

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