Ten perish in Hoima accident

Hoima
Hoima residents are in grief after ten people died in a grisly accident that occurred along the Hoima-Kaiso-Tonya road.

According to eye witnesses, the victims were travelling in an Isuzu canter, registration number UAM 396V from Butimba market in Kiziranfumbi subcounty towards Kaiso landing site in Buseruka Sub County.

The Midwestern regional police spokesperson Ms Lydia Tumushabe said the vehicle overturned in Kyenjojo village in Kabwooya subcounty at about 1.30pm on Tuesday.

She identified the deceased as Julius Asaba, 20, a resident of Kyehoro village, Joyce Kaboma,45,a resident of Kyerube village and Farida Kyosaba,18.

Also dead is Kwiyocwiny Esther, 26 and her one year old daughter only identified as summer.
Others are: Evelyn Kabagambe,30,a resident of Kiziranfumbi subcounty,Christine Kyotamanya,35,a resident of Kaiso fishing village, Joyce Kabwona,45,a resident of Kaiso fishing village and Apiyo,20,a resident of Kaiso and Medard Tumwine,a resident of Kibingo village.

The Hoima District traffic officer Mr Steven Muhoozi said the accident occurred due to over speeding.

“The driver was reckless, he failed to control the vehicle and it veered off the road and overturned” Muhoozi said.

Police transported the bodies of the victims to a mortuary at Hoima regional referral hospital and the three survivors of the accident were admitted at the hospital’s accident and emergence ward.

Yasinta Alinaitwe, 26, a resident of Kaiso village who survived the crash said the vehicle was overloaded with agricultural produce which the traders had shopped in Bukinda market.

“The driver failed to brake as we approached a corner in rift valley escarpment” Alinaitwe told the Daily Monitor at the hospital where she is nursing multiple injuries.

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