ANGRY MASINDI RESIDENTS HACK THIEF TO DEATH

By Innocent Atuganyira

MASINDI:

Suspected goat thief was Tuesday morning hacked to death by angry residents of Biizi and Binyinya in Nyangahya Division Masindi Municipality Masindi district.

The gruesome incident happened at 1am.

According to residents who spoke to our reporter at the scene, the deceased who was with his two colleagues had stolen two goats before the owner woke up and made an alarm that attracted her neighbours.

During the cat and dog game, his colleagues escaped with two goats on the motorcycle whose number plate wasn’t marked since it was late at night and the yet to be identified thief exchanged his life for two goats.

John Barungi, a resident, told our reporter that fully charged residents descended on the suspect, killing him instantly with the third goat belonging to the area LC1 chairperson.

According to Charles Oda, also a resident advised fellow residents to rear dogs since they are of importance in alerting people in case of any detected danger mostly in the wee hours.

Jovans Birungi the area LC1 Chairman whose goats were stolen revealed that the deceased had two phones and they will help in tracking.

By press time, the area leaders had alerted police to come at the scene to pick up the dead-body of the deceased who was visibly between his mid-20’s.