BODY OF DROWNED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT RETRIEVED ON LAKE BUNYONYI

By Grant Ahumuza

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In Rubanda

A body of senior 5 students at Nyabikoni senior Secondary school in Kabale municipality who drowned in Lake Bunyonyi on Friday has today been retrieved.

Amon Turyatemba, a resident of Bubaare in Rubanda district went missing on Friday until today morning at around 7:00am when his body was seen floating on lake Bunyonyi.

It is alleged that the deceased was touring at Lake Bunyonyi using a boat which capsized and he drowned.

The chairperson of Lake Bunyonyi mariners’ project, Davis Sunday says that according to the marine report, they suspect that the deceased’s body has been in the water for three days.

Sunday adds that as soon as they saw the body floating on water, they retrieved the body and alerted police about the matter.

By the time of filing this story, police had not yet commented on the matter.