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By Richard Akandwanaho

In Kabale—

Two people have been arrested in connection to the murder of a 75 years old woman who was killed mysteriously  in the night of 13^th this month at Kagunga village in Ikumba Sub county Rubanda district.

Maritina Kamuntu 75 ;a resident  of Kagunga village, Nyaruhanga parish Ikumba Sub county Rubanda district, was murdered by unknown assailants who broke into her house while she was asleep, cut her on the head with a machete and killed her instantly.

The Kigezi Regional police spokes person Elly Matte has confirmed the arrest and identified the suspects in police custody  as Anold Kagabiraho 22, a step son to the deceased and his mother Patience Tumwebaze 60,both  residents of Ntaraga village in Rubanda district.

Maate said that the two were arrested Sunday morning and are detained at Rubanda police station. He added the suspects had a  land conflict with the deceased .

He encouraged the public  to always use responsible  offices to solve their problems  amicably other than taking laws into their hands.

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By Elly Karenzi

In Ibanda—

Police in Ibanda district have arrested and detained a crime preventer together with other civilians on allegation of robbery.

The District Police Commander Ibanda;Denis Ochama has identified suspects in detention as Savino Baingana (crime preventer) ,Doreen Kirabo and John Baptist Azookire; employees of Shelter Bar; a long Mpiira street together with  Abudu Kafeero, a coffee dealer in Ibanda municipal council.

Ochama says Savino Baingana who was attached to Ibanda municipal council   connived with  three people  and robbed shs. 3.5 Million from Mr. Robert Bwengye, a resident of Sembabule district who had sold his coffee at one of the coffee factories in Ibanda district.

Mr.  Ochama says Baingana will appear in courts of law for trial.

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By Our Reporter

In Beni—-

A soldier and 12 militants were  Saturday  killed during an attack on Beni’s central prison by armed assailants who have yet to be known.

The Congolese Army spokesman Lieutenant Jules Tshikudi told www.mknewslink.com reporter that twelve Mai-Mai and an officer from the Armed Forces  of Democratic Republic of Congo died in fighting that lasted for three hours  in Kabasha area.
The Mai-Mai are vigilante groups that run along ethnic lines. During the brutal Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003, numerous groups were armed by the government to fight against Ugandan or Rwandan forces, and some of them never disarmed.
Saturday’s clashes broke out when Mai-Mai fighters attacked the army’s position in Kabasha, Tshikudi said, without indicating their ethnicity. The army is now in control of the area, which civilians have fled, he added.

Kabasha lies 24 kilometres (15 miles) south of Beni, a city that has suffered a wave of violence since 2014 with nearly 700 civilians killed, many of them hacked to death.
Those killings have been blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces, a shadowy rebel group dominated by hardline Ugandan Muslims who were initially focused on overthrowing Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.

The eastern DR Congo has been rocked by more than 20 years of armed conflict among both domestic and foreign armed groups, fuelled by struggle for control of lucrative mineral resources as well as ethnic and property disputes.

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