UPDF Investigates Attack on Zombo Detach

By Kampala Post Reporter

The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) are hunting for an armed gang that attacked its detachment in Zombo town council, leaving three soldiers dead on Friday morning.

The army Spokesperson, Brig Richard Karemire says the attackers were armed with machetes, bows and arrows. A number of assailants were killed as the army engaged them.

One of the dead attackers has been identified as David Ovuya, a resident of Paidha Town Council, as per the documents on him.

Brig Karemire says the security forces are hunting for the assailants that fled the scene “as investigations continue to establish the motive of the heinous crime.”