Summary:
- Information about the incident circulated until the officer-in-charge (O/C) at Kamuganguzi Police Station was informed.
KABALE: A 37-year-old man has been buried alive by a sand quarry in Kabale District.
The deceased has been identified as Dickson Niwamanya, a resident of Nyakakika cell, Muyebe parish, Buhara Sub County in Kabale district.
Elly Maate, the Kigezi region police spokesperson, reported that Niwamanya had been involved in sand mining at Bukaranga cell along the Kabale-Katuna road for a long period. On Thursday, at around 10:00 AM, he left home to mine sand with another person, who has not yet been identified. Unfortunately, he was killed instantly when the soil collapsed on him.
Information about the incident circulated until the officer-in-charge (O/C) at Kamuganguzi Police Station was informed. He then notified the O/C CID Kabale, who made an official report. A team of homicide detectives was dispatched at around 7:20 PM to investigate the scene. They discovered that the body was buried deep under the sand.
Initially, the homicide team planned to handle the matter the following day. However, before they could proceed, local residents retrieved the body and placed it in an open area.
The crime scene was revisited on Friday morning with a police surgeon. After examining the body, it was handed over to the relatives for a decent burial.
