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Family members who have been secretly killing people for over 20 years arrested

Gerald Businge — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:46:28 +0000

Family has been reportedly ambushing people, robs of their properties, kills them and then secretly buries them in banana plantations. The bodies have been exhumed by the Police today, walakira Nyanzi reports.

The discovery of the bodies shocked people. The bodies were found in a banana plantation owned by a medical assistant, Wilson Karaira, a resident of Kajara cell in Kanungu district. Kanungu is the place where a man called Joseph Kibwetere burnt live over 1000 people in 2000.

The police have arrested Karaira’s wife, Gorret Kabaza, and her two sons Philip Asiimwe and Francis Monday in connection with the robberies and murders. Other suspects are on the run.

Eye witnesses told the media that some of the bodies exhumed had been stripped naked and their genitals chopped off. Traditionalists tell the media that it seems the people behind the murder chopped off the genitors and put them in shrines to stop the spirits from attacking them.

The police say that the owners of the land to disguise the graves planted banana plantations on them. To a non member of the family, the graves were hard to be seen.

The bodies discovered were decomposed and could not easily be identified. The police have told the media that the members of this family according to preliminary investigations would ambush bicycle riders, loaded businessmen and women, motorcycle riders and sometimes they would invite rich people in their homes, murder them and take the money they might have moved with.

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Vehicle rams into train, passengers injured

Gerald Businge — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:35:09 +0000

A speeding vehicle has today morning rammed into a high speed train inKampalainjuring the passengers on board. The accident occurred in Wankoko in Bugolobi,Kampaladistrict.

The police spokesman, Asuman Mugyenyi confirmed the accident and attributed it to reckless driving.

He says that the injured persons were a couple. The unidentified couple has been admitted to Mulago hospital in critical condition.

Eye witnesses have told our reporters and the police that the accident was caused by a driver who tried to drive faster before the train approached him and in the process he failed. The train hit the vehicle injuring the couple.

The driver of the vehicle got injuries on the abdomen and on the head. But the condition he was in was not threatening his life.

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Two Uganda Policemen killed on road

Gerald Businge — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:44:03 +0000

At least six people including two policemen have died in a motor accident today on Kampala Gulu highway. The place of the accident is Kalule near Wobulenzi town council.

The accident involved a Gaga bus Reg No UAL 158Z that rammed into a stationary truck with aSudan’s number plate CE 998b killing the six people on spot.

The dead policemen were identified as John Bisaso and Emmanuel Lwanga, both attached at Kalule police post in Luweero district. Five million shillings and two guns were recovered from the scene of the accident.

The eye witnesses and the police have both attributed the accident to over speeding and reckless driving on the part of the bus driver. The accident was confirmed by the traffic investigations officer of Luweero district, Patrick Mugisha.

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