NTUNGAMO: SENIOR FOUR CANDIDATE RAPED, DIES IN HOSPITAL

By Felix Twinomugisha

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In Ntungamo

Police in Ntungamo District are investigating a case which a 19-year-old Senior Four student was gang-raped and later died.

The student of Kitwe Secondary School was an O-Level candidate and a resident of Kitogosi village, Nyakabaare Ward in Kitwe Town Council.

Five suspects, including two male students of the same school, have been arrested.

The girl allegedly escaped from school with other students for an outing in Kitwe Town on Sunday evening but was found unconscious in the school playground on Monday morning.
She was taken to Kitwe Health Centre IV where she died hours after arrival.

Mr Oward Ruhesi, the school headmaster, said that the girl went out with two other students and left their colleagues revising their notes at night, causing anxiety among other students and teachers. The two students later returned but without her.

“Because she was doing her papers, when she was not found revising with others, it caused anxiety in the school. She had escaped with others from school. They later returned. She was one of the most humble students we had in the school. I can’t tell how this happened. We discovered her in the morning at the playground and took her to hospital but she could not make it,” Mr Ruhesi said.

Police said that the girl was found on the playground near the school shivering and lying on eucalyptus leaves. Police said there were signs of sexual assault at the scene.

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