By URN
Kibaale police are investigating the circumstances, under which a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death. The deceased is Batista Bayunve Twinomujuni, a resident of Wazira village in Kayanja parish in Kayanja sub-county.
It is alleged that at around 11:30 pm on Tuesday night while in a bar in Katwetwe trading center, the deceased picked up a quarrel with Bosco Nuwagaba, a resident of the same area for an unknown reason.
Nuwagaba picked a knife and stabbed Twinomujuni in the chest. He was rushed to Buseesa medical center for treatment while bleeding profusely where medics pronounced him dead on arrival.
John Byamukama, the Katwetwe LC I village Chairperson, says that residents pursued Nuwagaba and arrested him while fleeing from the area. He was handed over to Kibaale police Station. Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson, says that the suspect is in custody at Kibaale central police station on charges of murder.
The police later handed over the deceased’s body to Kibaale Health Center IV for postmortem.
