KISORO: Police in Kisoro District on Friday arrested a 30-year-old woman accused of dumping her biological daughter into a rainwater harvesting tank, resulting in the child’s death.
The suspect, identified as Jackline Ruhangariho, a resident of Murindi Village, Muhindura Parish in Kanaba Sub-county, is alleged to have disposed of her 2-year and 8-month-old daughter in the tank under circumstances that remain unclear.
According to Steven Bakunzi, the Local Council I Chairperson of Murindi, he received a distressing report about a young child who had been found in a rainwater tank. He immediately notified officers at the Kanaba Police Post, who responded to the scene and later sought support from Kisoro Central Police.
Police officers retrieved the body and conducted a postmortem examination at the scene. The child’s remains were subsequently handed over to relatives for burial.
Ruhangariho is currently being held at Kisoro Police Station as investigations into the incident continue.
By Press time, Police had not yet commented on the matter.
