Unknown assailants have raided Kamugole village, Nkoko Sub-county in Kakumiro district, hacking the LCI Chairperson to death.
The deceased has been identified as Benon Byaruhanga, 58. The incident happened last night at around 11 p.m., in the same area.
Available information obtained by Favour FM reveals that the assailants, while armed with machetes, waylaid the village chairperson as he was riding his motorcycle registration number UEC 918Z Bajaj.
He was returning home from Kamugole trading center. The assailants also made off with the motorcycle to an unknown destination.
Bonny Kyaligonza, a resident, says they heard Byaruhanga screaming for help and rushed only to find him lying dead in a pool of blood.
He says the assailants hacked him severely on the head, face, and chest, killing him on the spot.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson, has confirms the incident, adding that preliminary police investigations indicate that the village chairperson was attacked and killed by five individuals who were trailing him as he was returning home from Kamugole trading center.
He says that detectives have already been deployed in the area to investigate the murder and that the deceased’s body has been retrieved from the crime scene and conveyed to the Kakumiro Health Center IV mortuary, where it is currently lying pending post-mortem examination.
By URN
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