By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
A police officer attached to Field Force Unit (FFU) Mbarara has shot dead a Uganda People’s Defense Forces soldier in Mbarara City.
According to police statement signed by Polly Namaye, Police Constable, Charles Opio shot dead Corporal Yeremiah Yaper of Rugengere Engineering Brigade yesterday, 19th May, 2023 at about 8:00pm.
Namaye says the shooting that occured at Police/Prisons Cell, at the residence of FFU opposite Bank of Uganda Mbarara branch was occasioned by a misunderstanding between the two.
‘Preliminary findings indicate that the duo had a misunderstanding that led to the Shooting. We have arrested the suspect and he is being held at CPS Mbarara while the gun suspected to have been used in the murder has been recovered and exhibited,” Namaye says in a statement.
She says the body of the deceased has been conveyed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital for postmortem.
