PRISON WARDER, INMATE FALL INTO SEPTIC TANK, DIE ON SPOT

By Innocent Atuganyira

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In Masindi–

Prison officers and the prisoners were on Monday afternoon shocked by news of their colleagues who died on spot after falling in a septic tank.

The incident happened few meters from the prison ward in Masindi town.

According to James Murungi an eyewitness, the prison warder was guarding the prisoner who was reopening the sewage channel which had got blocked. Murungi also explains the prisoner slid and in the process of rescuing him, the prison warder also fell.

The eyewitness further explains that another warder who attempted to rescue the colleagues also fell into the septic tank but was rescued by the colleagues in unconscious condition and was rushed to a health Centre for treatment.

Police rushed to the scene, exhumed the bodies, and took them to Masindi hospital mortuary pending postmortem.

Efforts to get a comment from Frank Mbaine the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson were futile by press time as his known number was not available.

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