Police in Luwero district have launched investigations into circumstances surrounding the beheading of an 8-year-old boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident described as a ritual sacrifice occurred at Butanza-Kisule village in Katikamu Sub-County. The victim has been identified as Yasin Sseruga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deceased\u2019s parents one Yasin, the father and Florence Nabatanzi, the mother reported a case of their missing child on Friday to the Butanza-Kisule Local Council 1 chairman Godfrey Kafeero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was after he failed to return home. According to chairman Kafeero, after registering this report, he also took it to Wobulenzi Police Station. Amidst all this, he says that they also put announcements on Megaphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chairman Kafeero explains to Uganda Radio Network (URN) that today on Sunday morning a resident who was heading to the garden landed on the headless body lying near a tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The killer apparently took off\u00a0 with the head, leaving left the torso behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police have taken the torso for postmortem.\u00a0 The force has also deployed sniffer dogs to the scene of crime.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to URN, Patrick Lule, the Acting Savannah Regional police publicist says that the force has deployed officers to collect information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lule says he will give a detailed account into the investigations later. Although residents have put the murder to suspected ritual sacrifice, police is yet to establish the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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