Police in Kigezi regon are investigating circumstances under which a 60-year-old man who went missing on Thursday was beheaded.
The deceased identified as Michael Kyarugahi, a resident of Rushebeya village in Kitojo-Nyarurambi parish, Rwamucucu sub-county was discovered dead in a wetland with some body parts missing.
Kyarugahi’s wife Gorreti Katushabe says her husband left home on Thursday evening to Rushebeya trading center, but never returned. Katushabe says she was compelled to file a police report of a missing person after efforts to trace her husband were futile.
Katushabe says on Saturday afternoon when Kyarugahi’s body was found in Kitaraaka wetland that connects Rwamucucu, Kashambya, and Bukinda sub counties a few meters from the trading center.
Elly Maate, police spokesperson for Kigezi region says that the deceased’s body has been taken to Kabale regional referral hospital mortuary for postmortem as investigations into the matter as well efforts to hunt for the suspected assailants continyue.
This is not the first time a person was killed and body parts taken in Kigezi region. In July 2020, Corporal Nabimanya Ambrose, a retired Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldier and a resident of Kashegu village, Kahoko parish Nyakagyeme sub county in Rukungiri District was discovered killed and his private parts, one eye and the tongue taken.
In August 2021, the body of an unidentified man was found floating on river Kiruruma in Nyamurindira village, Muyebe Parish, Buhara sub county of Kabale district with the private parts cut off and taken.