Two casual workers are reportedly on the run following the murder of a couple that employed them in Kyenjojo District’s Katooke Sub County.
Yesterday, residents of Kiguza Village woke up to devastating news indicating that the casual workers are suspected to have harrowingly murdered their employers.
Police identified the deceased, whose bodies were found lying in a pool of blood, as 77-year-old retired veterinary officer Ivan Kiiza and his 70-year-old wife, Eva Kiiza who was a retired primary school teacher.
Rwenzori West Region Police spokesperson, Vincent Twesige revealed that initial information to police came from 17-year-old David Musinga who visited Kizza’s family to discuss a casual labor job that the deceased woman had promised him the previous day.
Police say the murdered couple had been living with the two escaped casual workers (a man and a woman) while the pair’s grandchildren were away in a boarding school.
Twesige explained that the two resident casual workers were nowhere to be found and efforts to locate them had proven fruitless by yesterday evening.
Meanwhile, bodies of the deceased were transported to Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital for a postmortem.
