KIGEZI – The territorial police of Kabale are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of Mirembe Hindu 27 years old a resident of Kashaka Nuabugando village Bubare sub county Mbarara district, who allegedly drowned in Lake Bunyonyi and died instantly.
It is alleged that Mirembe and her boyfriend Robert Hausvih left Kampala on 9/12/2024 to one of the Islands at lake Bunyonyi at Bufuka village, Mwendo parish Kitumba sub county, for the festival season holidays where they wanted to have change of environment.
And that, on the night of 01/02/2025 at around 9Pm while the couple and others were watching the Liverpool game, Mirembe decided to jump into the waters of lake Bunyonyi to have a swim and after some few minutes she came out, but dived into the waters again and couldn’t come back. Hausvih and his friends jumped into the water and found her and got her out. He tried giving her a recovery first aid, but she couldn’t respond and then called for a car and rushed her to Rugarama hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The report of drowning was registered on 02/02/2025 at around 04pm at Cps Kabale, officers responded to the scene and had it examined, processed and documented.
The Kigezi Region Police Sopkesperson SSP Elly Maate confirms the incident stressing that postmortem was done at Rugarama hospital and the body was handed over to relatives and taken to Mbarara for a decent burial.
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