Police have arrested five suspects in connection with a double brutal murder of a landlord together with her husband in central Uganda.
The 54-year-old Milly Naava Namutebi and her 53-year-old husband Abudallah Kayizi –both residents of Kirwanyi Village in Kiruma Sub County in Mubende District- were brutally murdered yesterday.
Muzafaru Ssekamate, a son of the deceased, told our reporter that a group of about 30 residents attacked his parents and Brother Ibrahim Kawuma at around 8am.
Ssekamate said they were heading to the garden to collect food and a group of people armed with machetes, spears, clubs and axes surrounded his father, battered him with big sticks until he fell down and they later killed him with an axe.
Ssekamatte who was cut on the head but managed to escape from the angry mob narrated that after killing the father, her mother attempted to run away, but one of the attackers threw a brick on her back which forced her to fall down and she was later hit with an axe on the head and she died.
Locals who spoke to Endigyito radio linked the Monday incidents to a long-standing land battle the family has been involved in with over 3,000 sitting tenants in five villages in Kiruma Sub County.
Wamala Regional police spokesperson Racheal Kawala also said preliminary findings also connected the gruesome murder to land conflicts between the family and residents.
She emphasised that the hunting is ongoing for more suspects who took part in the heinous act.
