\u201cA police officer belonging to the unit escorting the Ebola response team has just shot and killed this young girl. We are at the Katula\/Paida cemetery. Here is the grave where the confirmed case, around whom the incident took place, was supposed to be buried,\u201d says a viral video circulating in WhatsApp groups located in Beni (DRC) tracked by VokaCheck.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization (WHO) team deployed in Beni also confirmed the incident to VokaCheck, specifying that the casualty toll was being processed and that a joint team of health and administrative authorities from North Kivu province was investigating the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SUSPECTED PERPETRATORS OF THE SHOOTING ARRESTED\u00a0<\/p>\n
Continuing its verification of the details of this incident, VokaCheck spoke with Senior Police Commissioner Kahumba Lemba Jean-Fabien S\u00e9bastien, the urban police commander in the city of Beni. The officer deplored the consequences of this event but specified that the police had arrested the alleged shooters, who must explain the circumstances that led to this tension and the reported damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0The entire unit in the jeep escorting the response teams has been detained. These alleged shooters who caused this damage (death and injuries) must provide full explanations to the police regarding the course of events\u00a0\u00bb he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
THE RESPONSE TARGETED FOR MISMANAGEMENT AND INCOMPETENCE IN HANDLING THIS HEALTH CRISIS\u00a0<\/p>\n
A member of the RCCE (Risk Communication and Community Engagement) pillar of the government's response team and a pro-democracy activist based in Beni, Nick Junior Vusindi considers the quality of the health response ineffective in the face of multiple field challenges. Speaking to VokaCheck and on his Facebook account, he denounces mismanagement and explains that this incident occurred while local teams working to defeat Ebola are threatening to strike over a range of grievances.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On social media, particularly the WhatsApp messaging service, photos and videos have been circulating showing a young teenage girl hit by gunfire. Social media users claim that she had just died following shots fired by the Congolese national police, who were suppressing an escalation between officers escorting a safe and dignified burial team from the Ebola response and young people who wanted to handle the body of a person who had died from the Bundibugyo strain virus. These events took place on 24 September at the Katula cemetery in the Rwangoma\/Paida neighbourhood in the commune of Beu, according to various posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
VokaCheck, the fact-checking desk of the information and communication research centre Factualit\u00e9 Afrique, has verified all these allegations and confirms the incident, including the death of the young teenage girl filmed in the shocking footage.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_vc_claim":"\u00ab Un policier membre de l\u2019unit\u00e9 escortant l\u2019\u00e9quipe de la riposte contre Ebola vient de tuer cette fille en lui tirant une balle. Nous sommes au cimeti\u00e8re de Katula\/Paida. Voici la tombe o\u00f9 devrait \u00eatre enterr\u00e9 le cas confirm\u00e9 autour duquel s\u2019est produit l\u2019incident. \u00bb","_vc_claim_original":"\"Kuko fille amepata masasi ku cimeti\u00e8re Katula\/Paida. Police yenye ilikuwa na accompagn\u00e9 \u00e9quipe ya riposte njo imepiga masasi ovyo ovyo. Kuko groupe yenye ilikuwa na r\u00e9clam\u00e9 kuona corps avant enterrement. Fille mwenye ana p\u00e2ta masasi niwa Cit\u00e9 Belge. Il y a plusieurs bless\u00e9s\" indique une publication en Swahili partag\u00e9e plusieurs fois via les groupes WhatsApp, essentiellement bas\u00e9s \u00e0 Beni.","_vc_verdict":"true","_vc_language":"sw","_vc_region":"Beni","_vc_virality":80,"_vc_sources":"Factualit\u00e9 Afrique | https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/ebola-au-moins-1-mort-durant-des-heurts-en-lien-avec-un-enterrement-digne-et-securise-a-beni-paida\/\nReuters\nT\u00e9moignage de Nick Junior \u00e0 VokaCheck | https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nickjunior.vusindi\/posts\/pfbid0KeuuyRZeyeYZMP6YqJ7yfMgPpUoXnBk8pwwmBkoTcuXpfpTbX3z9t3UzyxFFyMHVl\nActualit\u00e9.cd | https:\/\/actualite.cd\/2026\/09\/24\/beni-un-mort-par-balle-dans-une-altercation-lors-de-lenterrement-lie-ebola","_vc_audio_claim":"","_vc_audio_verdict":"","_vc_submission_id":0,"_vc_reviewed_by":2,"_vc_reviewed_at":"2026-09-25 02:51:43","_vc_ai_assisted":0,"_vc_keywords":"Ebola, Paida, Katula, police, mort, Beni, enterrement","_vc_channel":"","footnotes":""},"vc_language":[180],"vc_verdict":[185],"vc_topic":[189],"vc_region":[206],"class_list":["post-17383","vc_factcheck","type-vc_factcheck","status-publish","hentry","vc_language-sw","vc_verdict-true","vc_topic-sante","vc_region-beni","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks\/17383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vc_factcheck"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17384,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks\/17383\/revisions\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vc_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_language?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"vc_verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_verdict?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"vc_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_topic?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"vc_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_region?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}