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UPDF soldier shoots woman dead in Kagadi
A land evacuation wrangle involving soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces has left a woman killed by bullets fired at her by a yet to be named soldier who is currently on the run.
The incident occured in Kagadi District in Bunyoro region, where a UPDF commander identified as Omara opened fire at people who are said to have defied eviction orders. A solider identified as Rwamwojo illegally acquired the land aftee fraudulently acquiring the contested space. The high ranking soldier is said to have deployed his cattle to herd on the land and ordered his soldiers from the 6th batallion of Kagadi barracks to go and execute an eviction order.
In the shooting spree, he killed a woman on the spot and injured another man said to be in very critical condition after bleeding profusely.
Pictures that have enveloped the internet show a lifeless body of a woman clad in a black blouse lying lifeless in a blood pool.