The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire identifies the fire victims as 30-year-old Doreen Namutebi and her four children including Aisha Birungi, 13, Jennifer Nanyonjo, 8, Mugenyi Seguya, 7 and Israel Ntulume, 6.
The area LC I chairperson, Stephania Nassaka, says the body was taken to the Kalisizo hospital for postmortem before it was handed over to the family members for burial.
The teenager is said to have been in a relationship with the 25-year-old Boda boda cyclist, whose name has been withheld by police, for more than four months. Her parents got concerned and ordered her to cancel the relationship since she was still young to be dating.
"The driver was from drinking beer and he was rushing," said a passenger. "We were 81 registered passengers aboard and he wanted to fuel but the price did not look good to him so he wanted to go to another fuel station when he overturned at the corner."
URN reports that girls as young as 12 and above are eluding legal frameworks including law enforcement by sneaking for to cut themselves in small groups before the parents finally find them a specialist to complete the procedure.
Zainab was arrested on Thursday evening with scores of NUP supporters in Moroto town as they held a peaceful demonstration demanding the release of NUP presidential candidate, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi.
The Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire says police has tried to cooperate with politicians to have safe campaigns but some do not adhere to the guidelines.
Nakapiripirit District Police Commander, Joseph Bongo, says calm has returned and normal business has resumed. He says they have also picked up two suspects, whose identities have been withheld to aid the police investigations.
UPDF and police engaged in running battles with the residents who wanted to avenge Tule’s death. Police had to fire live bullets to calm the situation that left several people with minor injuries.
Alanyo told URN on her sick bed that the injury has left her helpless and unable to fend for her 4 children. A police officer on Kyagulanyi’s security detail was also injured during an altercation between the local police and the guards in Panyangara in Kotido Municipality.
Enos Odong, the Officer in Charge of the Criminal Investigations Department-CID in Abim, says the residents first looted the produce on the truck before they torched it when the driver fled for dear life.
NUP supporters in Karamoja called for the resignation of the IGP following Kyagulanyi's arrest moments after he was nominated to contest for the presidency, on Tuesday. He is one of the 11 candidates nominated by the Electoral Commission to faceoff with the incumbent Yoweri Museveni.
Police have identified the deceased as Polycarp Lokeris and Lotyang John Bosco Lokurukan, both residents of Komuria in Kaabong district. Polycarp Lokeris was a graduate of engineering from Kyambogo university having completed his bachelor's course from in 2019.
Fahad Kyaliyawula was shot together with his wife at dawn on Monday near Lokali Bridge at Moroto - Nakapiripirit border while taking his to Moroto for treatment.
John Mukaaya 22 was alone in the house when he was attacked this (Wednesday) morning at 2am. Residents say that the attackers spilled petrol in the house and lit it while he was asleep.
One person was wounded severely as bullets ripped through her legs leaving her bleeding profusely. The injured, identified as Gloria Ayolo, 24, was rushed to Kotido Health Centre IV in critical condition and later referred to Matany Hospital for proper management.
Maurice Auma, a resident of Nateete village in Awach Sub County was arrested on Friday following a tip-off from concerned neighbours who alerted the authorities about the traditional marriage ceremony involving Auma’s 16- year old school girl and a 24-year- man.
Martin Sebagala was arrested on Sunday by police following the death of two casual workers; Lonya Igira Kiyonga, 26 and his unidentified colleague who died on Saturday at a construction site in Senior Quarters in Kotido Municipal Council. Kiyonga, one of the deceased has been identified as a resident of Nagolopooi in West Division in Kotido Municipality.
John Chilla, the Nakapelimoru Sub County LC III Chairperson, says suspected warriors abducted an elderly woman and a teenager last week from a settlement Camp. He says the warriors killed the teenager in the thicket while the old woman sustained fractures resulting from torture by the warriors.
