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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 30 students of Fort Portal Secondary School are nursing injuries they sustained in an accident. The students were returning from a football match at Uganda Technical College Kichwamba. The accident occurred on Wednesday at 7pm in Kitarasa along the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo highway. According …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 10 students of St. Marys Assumpta Seed Secondary School in Tororo district are nursing injuries at Tororo hospital they sustained in an accident on Tuesday morning. The affected students are part of the school netball and football team that were heading to King …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least two people were killed on the spot and 20 others injured critically following a head-on collision involving a bus belonging to Baby Coach company and a truck in Luwero district along Kampala-Gulu highway. The accident occurred at around 3:50am on Monday in Lukomera village, …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan-based Spanish journalist Sadurni Carrasco Sumaya,39, has died in a motor accident at Chopelwo valley along Kampala – Gulu highway in Kiryandongo District. She was killed together with her Ugandan driver, Thomas Mugisha in the accident that occurred around 8:30 pm on Monday evening. Faridah Nampiiga, …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lamwo Resident District Commissioner Nabinson Kidega, is nursing injuries at St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu City following a nasty road accident. Kidega, his bodyguard Christopher Onek, and driver Patrick Odongo, sustained multiple body injuries when his pickup registration number UG 3332C, overturned after knocking …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF officers have been confirmed dead following an accident in Tororo district. The duo was knocked by a cargo truck at Tororo, Mbale, Malaba, Jinja corner junction in Tororo municipality. The two army officers have been identified as Warrant Officer Collins …

Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 20 students of Hoima school of Nursing and Midwifery have been rushed to Hoima Regional Referral Hospital in critical condition after a motor accident in Kikuube district. The accident occurred at Nyarongo village, Kabwoya sub-county as more than 60 students on board were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF soldier is at large for shooting and injuring a traffic police officer in Ntinda, Kampala. Assistant Inspector General of Police-AIGP, Asan Kasingye identifies the injured traffic officer as Police Constable Robert Mukebezi. The traffic officer was towing a vehicle that …

Dokolo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Dokolo South MP Felix Okot Ogong has been involved in an accident in Dokolo district. The accident occurred at Agwata Junction, Agwata town council  at around 9:00am. Ogong and his political assistant Tony Okello who was driving were on the way from the MP’s …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 7 traders were killed and scores others injured in an accident in Agali sub-county, Lira district on Monday evening. The seven were killed when a Fuso truck registration number UBJ 354G they were traveling in with over 50 other market vendors and their …