Five drown in Lake Bunyonyi
Aug 24, 2016
The body of one child has been retrieved by locals, as the search for the other four victims is on-going.
PIC: Other residents use a canoe to cross the lake. Photos/ Job Namanya
Five people of the same family drowned in Lake Bunyonyi in the western district of Kabale after a canoe in which they were travelling was hit by a storm and capsized.
The deceased include a man, his wife, child, their sister-in-law and her child.
The body of one child has been retrieved by locals, as the search for the other four victims is on-going. The body was retrieved moments after the incident.
Relatives wait as swimmers search for the bodies
The bodies of Turyagumanawe, his wife Loy Mukamasiimwe, Catherine Phiona and her child Grace are still missing.
The Rubaya sub-county LC3 chairperson, Canon Enoch Kazooba, said the incident happened at Mushebeya when the victims were travelling from a relative's party in Mushebeya, Buhumba parish Kamuganguzi sub-county in Kabale District, to their home in Kabirago Ndarura village Rwanyena parish in Rubaya sub-county in Kabale district.
Two people also drowned in the same lake over the weekend.