By Leilah Bbaale
Police in Kibaale district is investigating the murder of two family members.
The deceased have been identified as 10-year-old Glorious Katusabe and Evarest Byamukama. The deceased were residents of Itomero village in Igoza parish, Nyamarwa Sub County in Kibaale district.
It is alleged that on Saturday, Byamukama who was weeding beans together with his mother Kerodenia Babwetara aged 67 and Katusabe (now deceased), picked a panga and cut Katusabe twice on the head killing her instantly over unknown reasons.
Katusabe was a granddaughter to Babwetera while Byamukama is Babwetara’s eldest child.
Byamukama’s mother made an alarm but then the suspect used the same panga to cut her on the neck leaving her in critical condition.
Julius Allan Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson says locals who heard the alarm rushed to the scene and found Babwetara lying unconscious while Katusabe’s body was lying in a pool of blood.
The locals mounted a search for Byamukama and lynched him in retaliation.
The bodies of the deceased were picked by police and taken to Kakumiro health centre IV for a postmortem while Babwetera was rushed to Mubende Health Centre IV for treatment.
