A group of
people suspected to be rebels raided Muhokya police post in Kasese district
early this morning killing a policeman and injuring another.
The attackers
also took off with a fire arm grabbed from the deceased police constable.
Three of the
attackers were also killed by police officers in retaliation.
The Uganda
Peoples Defense Forces have for a while been claiming the presence of Allied
Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels regrouping from about fifty kilometers from the
Ugandan border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Armed with machetes
and spears, the unknown men attacked the police post five kilometers from
Kasese town at 6:00 am according to a special police constable Enos Lhusenge
who battled with them.
Lhusenge told
reporters that he was in the kitchen preparing porridge for breakfast when two
men armed with spears and machetes attack the post.
According to
Lhusenge, the police officers locked themselves inside the house before the
attackers convinced the Officer in Charge of the post whom they injured.
OC Levy Sunday
is admitted at Kilembe hospital after being injured by stubbing several times
on the neck.
The dead police
officer was only identified as SPC Semakula who was recently transferred in the
area.
Semakula was killed
about three hundred meters from the police post as he was pursuing one of the
attackers.
The dead
attackers wearing blue trousers and dirk jackets were not easily identified by
security personnel by press time.
Some of the
residents of Muhokya who rushed to the scene after gunshots said the police
officer was killed after a long battle with the assailant.
They said the
attacker wore a green t-shirt but he was later seen in a red shirt, holding a
gun and headed in the direction of the Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Kasese Resident
District Commissioner Lt. Milton Odongo said a mobile phone and some documents
have been recovered from the killed attackers.
Lt. Odongo said
the men showed an act of rebellion by attacking a police post but not the
community.
He refuted
claims linking the attack to the recent uprising between the Bakonzo and the
Basongora over the installation of Ivan Bwebale as King in Muhokya.
Police and army
have deployed heavily in Muhokya in pursuit of the rest of the attackers who
took away with a gun.
The Officer in
Charge of Kasese Central Esau Opio said there was no preliminary information
concerning which group of people should have attacked the police post.
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