Luweero- Police in Luweero District have confirmed the death of one of their own and a 19-year-old boy during an operation in Mulungi Omu village on Wednesday.
The district police commander, Mr Paul Wataka, said Cpl Ronald Odongo of Luweero Central Police, and Sabastian Kabarebe were killed through a negligent shooting.
The officer believed to have caused the deaths is in custody.
“It is true the operation to have Lawrence Tinkasimire, a suspect, had been sanctioned by my office but the officers who handled the operation will be reprimanded. There was a serious act of negligence leading to loss of two innocent lives,” Mr Wataka told residents of Mulungi Omu Village on Wednesday.
The Resident District Commissioner, Ms Alice Muwanguzi, told family members of the deceased teenager that her office was investigating the matter.
According to Ms Prossy Nalunga, the mother of the deceased, eight armed men in civilian clothes surrounded their home on Wednesday, demanding for Mr Tinkasimire, who was in the house resting.
Ms Nalunga said the officers stormed the house and started beating up the deceased without explanation. She claimed that one of the officers shot his son in the left arm. “Another bullet hit the police officer who was trying to wrestle Kabarebe. When he escaped with a bleeding arm from the house, he was shot and killed by another police officer,” she said.
Ms Mirembe Dorotiya, an eyewitness, claimed that the armed men who stormed the house seemed not to know the person they wanted. “They suspected that the young boy was Lawrence Tinkasimire, the head of the family ,who was in the bedroom resting.
The officers did not bother to inquire and possibly explain to the people outside the house,” Ms Mirembe told the RDC on Wednesday.
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