Beach death: Police say student might have been strangled

MASAKA
Police in Masaka are investigating circumstances under which two students are said to have drowned in Nabugabo Sand beach last Saturday.
Police say their preliminary investigations indicate that one of the students was strangled before he was thrown in the water.

Police investigations comes after Masaka Regional Referral Hospital released post-mortem reports of the two bodies of Ronald Kyazze of Prince Kalema SS-Mpugwe and that of Frank Mutambuze of St Joseph SS-Butenga in Bukomansimbi District indicating that one of the students could have been strangled.
Dr Herbert Kalema attached to Masaka regional referral hospital who examined the bodies indicated that Kyazze’s body had bruises around his face and neck.

In his report, Dr Kalema said the student did not drown as had earlier been said but there is a possibility that someone killed him.
Some students who asked not to be named told Daily Monitor at the burial that there was a fight between Kyazze and another student from a different school over a girl.
According to the sources, the fight did not take place in the water.
However, when contacted, the regional police spokesperson Ibin Ssenkumbi they are still investigating the case.
However, the fishermen told us that they only saved the students and condemned the action done by police.

The chairman for the beach Lawrence Sserunjogi said they are always monitoring the beach to ensure no such incidents happen.
“When we learnt that the students drowned in the lake, we quickly got a boat and ran to rescue them but unfortunately, the two were already dead,” Sserunjogi said.
However, Nabugabo beach proprietor Herman Kasozi urged government to deploy marine forces on the lake to reduce on number of deaths.
According to him, the lake is owned by the government and there is need for it to put both security and marine forces that can provide help to people who might be in danger.