A Joint Task Team comprising of\nhomicide, flying squad and Kyenjojo Police, have arrested five (5) suspects in\nconnection with the gruesome murder of 5 young children whose ages range from 7\nyears to a one-month old toddler, which occurred on the night of 13\/03\/2019 at\nabout 0100\/am, in Kahompo village Bufunjo sub county Kyenjonjo district, when\nthe attackers broke the door and gained access to the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attackers traced for Tumwebaze Joseph, their father, but found when he was not around; and instead attacked the five children in their bedroom and hacked them all to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They further attacked, seriously assaulted Tumwebaze’s wife and dumped her body into Kahompo river, thinking she was dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was however rescued the following morning and rushed to hospital where she is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team over night arrested 4 suspects that include; Balyeija Justus aka Yusi, his wife Akampasa Keli, Muhereza Lauben and his wife Alinda Sylvia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team further tracked down and arrested Allan Turyahikayo, from Ntinda and transferred him to Kyenjojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The preliminary information indicates that the suspects hatched a plot in their home to carry a revenge attack on the family of Joseph Tumwebaze, after he facilitated the release of his brother Ndyanabo Godfrey, who was imprisoned for the murder of their brother, Bright, in 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two of his brothers Allan Turyahikayo and Balyeija Justus were not convinced with the out-of-court settlement between the two families and repeatedly threatened to revenge the life of their brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspects have confessed to the murder and also led the task team to the recovery of a blood stained shirt to one of the child victims and pangas used as murder weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have also established the identity of the other two suspects on the run as Byaruhanga Fred and Kagurane Emmanuel in who perpetrated the murder, and track them down for arrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We continue to appeal to anyone with information surrounding their whereabouts to contact us or share it in confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police strongly condemns the revenge attacks and killing of civilians including children, as there is no justification for such extraordinary degree of violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspects are to be charged with 5 counts of murder and 1 count of attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile the police has deployed a\nspecifically trained team of family liaison officers to counsel and support the\nsurviving family members during this tragic moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Joint Task Team comprising of homicide, flying squad and Kyenjojo Police, have arrested five (5) suspects in connection with the gruesome murder of 5 young children whose ages range from 7 years to a one-month old toddler, which occurred on the night of 13\/03\/2019 at about 0100\/am, in Kahompo village Bufunjo sub county Kyenjonjo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"\n