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🔴 UPDATE: Gen Katumba alive, daughter and driver dead

Gen Katumba Wamala minutes after the incident. PHOTO VIA TWITTER

🔴 Former army Commander Gen Katumba survives assassination attempt, daughter and driver dead

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Former army commander Gen Katumba Wamala has survived an assassination attempt, after he was shot in Kampala in a street raid that has left his daughter and driver dead.

He took some bullets, but was  rushed to hospital from where a video was posted soon after with him thank God for his escape, and asking his children to take care. Eye witnesses say that four assailants riding on motorbikes, shot at him along Kisota Road in Kisaasi just after 9.00am.

The attack

According to our reporter, the gunmen intercepted General Katumba, who was driving in his vehicle registration number H4DF 2138 along Kisasi-Kisota road and sprayed it with bullets.

Eyewitnesses say Katumba’s daughter identified as Brenda Nantongo and his driver Haruna Kayondo died on the spot while the General escaped with gunshot wounds in the chest. “The bodies are still in the vehicle that is still at the crime scene,” he said.

Katumba was first rushed to Malcolm Clinic in Kisaasi.   Detectives have cordoned off the scene to search for any clues on the attack.

He had just tweeted minutes before the shooting incident.

Katumba Wamala is a former head of Police and Uganda army, and is the Minister of Works and Transport.

FILE PHOTO Gen Katumba Wamala

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7 comments

  1. Condolences to the family of General Katumba Wamala. He is one of the M.Ps one would rightly call Honourable.
    Dignified, respectful and cordial.

  2. It’s really a pity

  3. Quick recovery genera and rest in peace the sister who has passed on

  4. Okurut Philip Collins

    Pray for Ugandan lives 😥

  5. It is a pity. We need people like General Katumba Wamala in modern times. One wonders why such a man should be assassinated? We need the grace of God in this nation where people no longer take other people’s lives seriously.
    You can’t tell me you want peace when you try to kill such a man.
    May God protect the General and the entire family.

  6. May her soul rest in peace and akmight God continue protecting you general I pray for your quick recovery.

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