BUSHENYI– A 70 year old man has been cut to death by yet to be identified assailant(s) in Kyabugimbi, Bushenyi district.
The deceased is Bonabantu Fred a resident of Bugomora A cell, Katikamwe ward, Kyabugimbi Town council who was murdered in the night of 20th January 2024 at an unknown time.
This publication learnt that on Sunday the 21st January 2024 at around 7am, Bonabana Fred was found dead with cuts on the neck and at the back next to the neck in the kitchen where he always sleeps while guarding his animals.
One of the residents told us that the incident happened shortly after a family conflict over land involving the deceased and his children and that the deceased had just sold some of his cows in order to construct a family house.
A case of muder was reported to Kyabugimbi police station by Mugabo Rodgers a resident of Kyabugimbi and reigistered under reference number SD 02/21/01/2024 and subsequently to Bushenyi Central Police Station as CRB 054/2024.
Police thereafter visited the scene, with homicide team, documented it, recorded statements from various witnesses and retrieved the body to Kampala International University- KIU mortuary Ishaka for postmortem examination.
While retrieving the body, Police officers who had found it in the kitchen lying facing downwards with deep cuts observed no blood splash on the ground and the legs were in sack while the body had stiffened indicating that he had died some hours before their arrival.
The Greater Bushenyi Police Spokesperson SSP Marcial Tumusiime confirmed the incident to our reporter stressing that efforts are ongoing to arrest the suspects and establish their motive of the murder.