One of the deceased old students
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NEWS- The Police in Kiruhura district on Sunday at 17th March 2024 at about 7:30am registered a fatal road accident that claimed two lives and injured two at Akyapa along the Mbarara- Lyantonde road.

The accident according to the Rwizi Region Police spokesman SP Samson Kasasira involved motor vehicles UBC 554D Toyota Spacio silver in colour driven yet to be identified male adult and UBH 961W Tata lorry white in colour driven by 41 year old Gessa Abaala Abdala, a resident of Gaba Bukunja in Buikwe District

Kasasira told the press that the driver of Toyota Spacio was from Mbarara side headed to Kampala, when he reached Akyapa, he lost control of the motor vehicle due to over speeding drifting from his lane and rammed into the Tata Lorry which was coming from the opposite direction killing two of its occupants and injuring two all not yet identified.

The injured victims were rushed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in a critical condition for treatment by good Samaritans and the deceaseds’ bodies were conveyed to Kasambya mortuary in Lyantonde District for postmortem.

Efforts to identify the victims are still ongoing according to the Police and the motor vehicles were towered and parked at Sanga Police Station awaiting the Inspector of Vehicles to inspect them.