{UAH} Police officer dies after his vehicle plunges into swamp

Police officer dies after his vehicle plunges into swamp

By Ismael Kasooha

Added 5th January 2020 06:27 PM

Nicholas Monday, the Kyarunyonyi village chairperson in Kinunda parish where the accident occurred, said residents saw the car in the swamp at around 10:00pm, but thought that someone might have abandoned it there.

Owere, who died after his car veered off the road and plunged into a swamp

ROAD ACCIDENT

 

The Police fraternity in Kakumiro district is mourning the sudden death of one of their own after a car he was driving veered off the road and plunged into a swamp.

 

The deceased has been identified as Jackson Dickson Owere, 48, the officer in charge of Crime Investigations Desk at Kikoora Police post in Kikoora sub-county, Kakumiro district.

 

 Owere's car in the swamp

 

The accident occurred when the vehicle he was driving veered off the Nyalweyo-Kakumiro road and plunged into the Masaigi swamp in Kinunda village on Saturday night. 

 

The exact time the deceased fell into the swamp is not clear.

 

The Kakumiro district Police commander, Najjib Waiswa, said preliminary investigations revealed that when Owere's car fell into the swamp, it was submerged in the water, which could have resulted in his drowning. 

 

''We were informed that Owere's vehicle had plunged into a swamp and that he had died. We went to the scene and retrieved his body," Waiswa said.

 

He added that Owere was sober the last time he saw him (at around 9:00pm the night before), so he was very surprised to hear of his death.

 

Nicholas Monday, the Kyarunyonyi village chairperson in Kinunda parish where the accident occurred, said residents saw the car in the swamp at around 10:00pm, but thought that someone might have abandoned it there.

 

Waiswa said the deceased's body was taken to Nyalweyo Police post awaiting postmortem. 

 

The deceased was a native of Omachi in Lira district.

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