Two people were on Monday night shot dead by unidentified armed thugs around 2245 hours at Zana cell Bunamwaya, Makindye Ssabagala Wakiso district.
According to Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango, the thugs riding on unidentified motorcycles robbed the victims of unspecified amount of money before shooting them dead.
“It is alleged that five thugs riding on three unidentified motor cycles robbed the victims of unspecified amount of money before shooting them dead. They were shot near their shop as they were heading home. We want to thank the area police (Kirimanyanga police post) for responding in time and the 999 patrol for coordinating the search for the thugs,” Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Mr Patrick Onyango said in a statement he issued on Tuesday.
The deceased have been identified as Harriet Naluwadde, 33 and her worker Moreen Nakabubi, 25, both residents of Zana cell.
Mr Onyango further noted that investigations into the shooting continue and appealed to members of the public to volunteer any information in regard to this incident.
Although Onyango didn’t describe the attires the thugs were wearing, eyewitnesses revealed to this website that they were putting on military camouflage.
Residents however revealed that this was not the first time Naluwadde was being attacked. They said that she was a survivor of mobile money attacks in 2015 where over 13 people were killed in Wakiso and Kampala district.
Onyango says police will check its records to understand how investigations into Naluwadde’s attack in 2015 were conducted and concluded. She was shot in the thighs back then and was operated in hospital.
She resumed her mobile money business after healing. The incident in Zzana happened about 500M from the newly installed Closed Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) security cameras.
However, investigators say the thugs seem to have monitored the area and were sure the cameras couldn’t capture the scene.
This however comes a few days after armed thugs attacked Cheap General Hardware in Nansana Municipality, Wakiso district, where they murdered three workers people and made off with Shs300M. The police are still hunting for the thugs in both the Nansana and now Zzana incidents.
