Priest dies in car crash

PIC: The late Fr. Richard Lubaale

ROAD ACCIDENT

The Catholic Church is mourning the loss of their priest who perished in a car accident on Monday night.

Fr Richard Lubaale perished in car accident on the Mbiko-Jinja-Kampala highway on his way back from Namagunga, where he had joined fellow priests to pray for the late Deacon Mulumba, who also died in an accident.

According to his fellow priests with whom they attended the memorial mass, Fr Lubaale left Lugazi close to 10:00pm.

Fr Lubaale, who was driving a RAV4, registration number UAU 864F, hit the rear of a parked lorry. His vehicle then rolled several times before settling in a trench off the road. He breathed his last while well-belted on the driver's seat, in his clerical shirt and a cross fix.

The Police took the body to the Jinja Hospital Mortuary, from where it was moved to Kampala.

Burial arrangements
The body will be taken his mother's home tomorrow and later to St. Camillus Seminary, Kimaka for mass at 7:00pm. Burial will take place at the priests' cemetery near Jinja Cathedral at 2:00pm.