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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are investigating the cause an accident that left three people dead on the Kampala-Jinja highway. According to Patrick Onyango, the spokesperson for Kampala Metropolitan Police, the accident occurred today morning in Mukono when a trailer carrying cement veered off the road after hitting …

Iganga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person was killed on the spot in the wee hours of Monday morning when a Fuso truck registration number KDB 015U veered off the road at Wanyange mile 5 along Jinja- Iganga highway. The truck crashed into taxi number UAT 238L killing 28-year-old Mwere Salim, also …

Maracha, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person died and several others were injured in a bus crash in Maracha District. The crash happened at Domuru Village on Thursday after the bus registration number UBF 218W belonging to NileStar veered off the road and overturned leaving the driver Bosco Nyeko Bongomin …

Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A tourist has died, and five others are nursing injuries they sustained in a motor accident along the Buhoma-Butogota-Kanungu road in Kanungu district on Monday morning. The tourists were returning from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park after gorilla tracking. Michael Kananura, the Public Relations Officer for …

Kyegegwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kyegegwa District is investigating a road accident in which Amos Alinaitwe the Kyegegwa OC Prisons died. Vincent Twesige the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson in a statement on Monday said  that on Saturday at around 8 PM at Kibuye along the Fort Portal …

Kyenjojo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ten people have been killed in a road crash in Kyenjojo District. The crash happened on Wednesday at Ngezi Trading Centre. In an interview with Uganda Radio Network, Rwenzori West police spokesperson, Vicent Twesige, the accident happened when a taxi registration number UBR 800S, …

Kiryandongo ,Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Simon Peter Musiila, the Kole District Internal Security Officer (DISO) has died in a motor accident in Kiryandongo District. The incident occurred on Monday evening in Kaduku 2 village, Masindi Port Sub-county. According to information gathered by Uganda Radio Network (URN), Musiila was driving a …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have confirmed that a turn boy of a fuel tanker that exploded in Kyanamira sub county, Kabale district along Mbarara-Kabale highway on Saturday was burnt to ashes. The Nissan semi trailer fuel tanker registration number UAQ 912N/ SSD 351Y rolled down at Kyanamira …

Matugga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scores of people are feared dead and others injured after fuel tank overturned and caught fire at Kigoogwa town along the Kampala-Gulu highway. The incident has caused heavy traffic jam between Matugga town and Kakerenge town along Kampala-Gulu highway According to Patrick Onyango, the …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  City lawyer Raphael Okiot died on the spot after a cement mixer truck, that tried to avoid a collission with cars waiting for the signals at the Nkumba traffic lights, instead overturned and crashed a Mitsubishi RVR he was driving. CCTV footage showed the minutes before the …