The raiding groups entered the hospital and searched their designated wards. Seven out of the ten Balubas were located and removed from the hospital. The party returned to the airstrip without incident and took off for Albertville. Here, they waited at the old town airstrip for the police of the local administration who arrived and took custody of the prisoners. Two of the wounded taken from the hospital who, at the time of capture stated that they were not part of the ambush, were later released. The other five prisoners were Michel Kabeke, Alexis Mukalayi, Stanislas Mwamba, Mufabule Banza, and Kamatshala Senga. They stood accused of three charges, (1) of being ‘perpetrators or co-perpetrators in a crime the object of which was to bring devastation, massacre or pillage’, (2) ‘having killed nine UN soldiers with premeditation and attempted to kill two UN soldiers’, and (3) having ‘carried arms, plainly or hidden, in an insurrectional movement’. The five accused denied having personally delivered any wounds or blows to the victims but acknowledged that they were part of the group who on 8 November 1960 lay armed in ambush near the barricades erected near the demobilised bridge on the Luweyeye River. The Court declared that it was not established that the accused had been directly involved in the criminal offence of bringing devastation, massacre and pillage. They also declared that it was established in the minds of the five accused the ‘the crime of murder and the attempt to murder, without premeditation, as well as the offence of carrying arms in an insurrectional movement’. Following the trial, the accused were sentenced at the Elizabethville District Court Penal Sitting, Open Court of Monday 13 November 1963 as follows:
M. Kabeke – three years capital penal servitude
A. Mukalayi – two years capital penal servitude
S. Mwamba – three years capital penal servitude
M. Banza – two years capital penal servitude
K. Senga – two years capital penal servitude