2 , Tuesday, July 2, 2013 national NEWS Wanted robbery suspects found among survivors By Simon Masaba The Police became suspicious stole her household property. when an identity card She presented documents at CPS Did fate drive the suspected belonging to a woman, Irene yesterday, proving that she had city robbers to the tragedy that Nanyonga, was found on one of reported the case to the Police, claimed the lives of more than 30 the suspects. which prompted the investigations people in Namungoona, a Nanyonga, a city trader, was of the suspects. suburb on Saturday? reported to have died in the “I was shocked and relatives As it turns out, five of the fire. kept calling my mobile number 23 victims of the tragedy who Following reports of her when local television channels and survived the incident, are admitted purported death, Nanyonga turned media publications ran my pictures at Hospital, but are under up at the Central Police Station among those of the victims of the Police surveillance. (CPS) in Kampala and revealed that fire,” Nanyonga said. Fire gutted a fuel tanker on the identity card was stolen from According to Ssenkumbi, the Saturday night, killing 29 people, her home, which was allegedly search led to other suspects, minute while six died at Mulago later. Ibin Ssenkumbi raided by thugs in March. who were also nursing injuries The Police say five of the survivors, Nanyonga, who runs a stationery sustained during the fire. 2 (names withheld), are linked to a Metropolitan Police spokesperson, shop in the city centre, said on Further investigations linked spate of robberies in Kampala and told New Vision that the suspects March 29, thugs broke into her the suspects to a gang of robbers catch-up the neighbouring towns. were identified as the Police home in , a city suburb, who have been terrorising the city, Ibin Senkumbi, the Kampala examined the victims of the inferno. drugged her using chloroform and according to Ssenkumbi.

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The death toll from Saturday night’s fire which broke out following an accident involving a fuel tanker at Namungoona on the Northern Bypass, Kampala has reached 35. Addressing journalists at the Media Centre yesterday, Rose Namayanja, the information and national guidance minister, said 29 people died on the spot, including four women. In addition, Namayanja said, six more people died at Mulago Hospital, where they had been admitted with severe injuries. She said a total of 29 had been admitted at Mulago, following the fuel tanker tragedy. “The Government strongly cautions the public against dangerous fortune- seeking acts like the one that led to the recent tragedy,” she said.

Health minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda talking to some of the doctors and nurses treating survivors of the Namungoona tragedy yesterday The tragedy The tragedy came after a Toyota Noah car rammed into a fuel tanker, resulting into a spillage of fuel on the road and down into a nearby papyrus swamp. Woman, daughter die as they return from burial The spillage attracted motorcyclists, passersby and residents, who started scooping fuel to fill the tanks of their motorcycles, while some were carrying By Jeff Andrew Lule, John Bisaso said they tried to call her on the spot. Sekayende survived said. Speaking to New Vision at the it away in basins, jerrycans and other Agaba and Violet Nabatanzi on phone, but it was off. They then with severe burns. “I just pray that mortuary yesterday, Ssenkumbi said kinds containers. Unfortunately, the proceeded to Mulago yesterday, God saves him,” Nalugwa said. eight bodies were burnt beyond fuel caught fire, killing and injuring A 12-year-old girl and her mother where they identified the bodies. recognition, adding that they also people. are among the people who perished Bisaso said his sister had only one Bweyogerere bodaboda cyclist had no identification documents on in the Northern Bypass inferno on child, who perished with her. Another survivor, Charles Kasule, them. Condolences Saturday night. 23, a bodaboda rider from Dr. Baterana Byaruhanga, the The Government also extended its Winnie Nakabuye and her mother, Prayers at Mulago Bweyogerere, was reportedly Mulago Hospital director, said most condolences to the bereaved families. Zaituni Nakigudde, became part One of the fire victims admitted burnt with a passenger he was of the victims had more than 60% of Namayanja commended the Police of the tragedy as they returned at Mulago’s Intensive Care Unit is transporting to Namungoona. their body surface area burnt. and Mulago Hospital for the timely from a burial in Luwero. They had Peter Sekayende, 15. The boy has “He was taking a passenger to response and also encouraged the gone to bury Nakigudde’s father – been put on life support. He is a Namungoona and as they rode past Relatives camp at mortuary public to always report any such Nakabuye’s grandfather. Primary Seven pupil at Bulenga the fuel tanker, it exploded suddenly. Over 100 people camped outside incidents to the Police to ensure timely Nakigudde’s brother, Eddie Primary School. He abandoned the motorcycle and the hospital’s mortuary, anxiously intervention as well as mitigation of the Bisaso, said his sister decided to Sekayende’s sister, Florence rushed into the nearby swamp. The waiting for their relatives to be resulting losses. return home immediately after the Nalugwa, who was by his bedside, passenger died on the spot,” Moses identified. burial because the daughter had was constantly in prayer, pleading Mukome, a relative, said. Geremina Twijukye, 24, who was DNA tests for other victims fallen sick. with the Lord to save her brother. weeping, didn’t know whether her Enock Kasasira, the Mulago Hospital “She had told us that they would Nalugwa, a resident of Bulenga, Eight bodies not yet identified brother, Gilbert Aine, was alive or spokesperson, said all DNA tests for go via the Northern Bypass to her said her brother was on his way A total of 26 bodies, out of 35, have dead. “I don’t know whether my bodies, which were burnt beyond residence in Namungoona. When back home from visiting a friend so far been identified. However, brother is among the dead. He recognition, are going to be carried we heard that people had died at in . When Sekayende and two of the identified bodies had by left home on Friday, but hasn’t yet out at the Government’s laboratory the bypass, we got concerned and his unidentified friend reached the yesterday not yet been claimed. returned. His phone is off. I hope in . “We have a team of rushed home. We didn’t find them at accident scene, they got out of the “They were identified, but no he is somewhere, but not dead,” pathologists who are going to carry out home,” Bisaso narrated, at Mulago taxi to find out what had happened. relative has come out to claim Twijukye said. the tests. However, we cannot tell you Hospital mortuary yesterday, While at the scene, the truck them,” Ibin Ssenkumbi, the Kampala Aine is a bodaboda cyclist the date as of now,” he said. waiting to recover the bodies. exploded, killing Sekayende’s friend Metropolitan Police spokesperson, operating on the Northern Bypass.