NEWS:Couple Found Dead In Their Rented House

 

Police in Kanungu District are investigating the circumstances under which a couple was found dead in their rental room.

The Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman Elly Maate identified the deceased as 21-year-old Joshua Akampurira and his wife Prudence Natukunda aged 20 years, from Kibimbiri village Rusoroza Parish in Kihihi sub-county in Kanungu.

He added that the two were discovered after the couple’s landlord Biramahire Eldzrd went to check on the rental premises yesterday morning in Kibimbiri Trading centre and found the house closed with a kid crying from inside.

Biramahire after suspecting something unusual,  he told the community members around to break into the rented room and that’s how they found the two dead bodies who might have died at an unknown time of the night.

Mr Sulaiti Asiimwe, the LC1 Chairman of the area made a report at the Kihihi Police station and the scene of crime was visited by the Police who recovered a Rwenzori bottle with liquid substance suspected to be poison was recovered under their bed.

According to Elly Maate, the dead bodies of a couple were taken to Kihihi Health Center IV Mortuary for postmortem examination as investigations continue and case of suspected murder by poison was registered at Kihihi Police Station in Kanungu District under reference number CRB 102/2022 to help in the investigations