The Police in Kanungu District are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a 28 year old man identified as Emmanuel Emimex alias Boy a resident of Kayenje Village in Nyamirama Sub-county Kanungu whose body was found floating on the water of river Mpangango by children who had gone to fetch water yesterday morning.
Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman Elly Maate confirmed the incident and said that the Police were informed, the scene was visited, processed and documented and postmortem examination was conducted on site by a Doctor from Kambuga Hospital.
Maate revealed that the postmortem examination established a broken bone on the head of deceased hence rising the suspicion that he was killed and the body dumped in water to disguise that he drowned.
Maate said that the body of the deceased was later handed over to the relatives for burial as inquiries continue and efforts to have the suspects arrested are underway.
