Priivate Lukanga Isaac a UPDF soldier RA/251424 of 5 Mountain Battalion based in Rusese in Kasese district entered into a colleague’s house and picked a gun, started shooting randomly and in the process injured a fellow soldier Pte Alebu Joel.
The soldier disappeared and the hunt for him begun. In The morning of Monday 4th Nov 2024 at around 4:00am, he appeared at a UPDF boarder detach at Kamukumbi, where he shot, killed and grabbed a sentry’s gun by the names of RA/ 251171 Pte Kule Solomon.
The hunt for the rampaging soldier was intensified, and this evening the soldier was put out of action by a UPDF squad dispatched to disarm him when he shot back at them.
The two guns were recovered from the said soldah6ohier and are in safe hands. We commiserate with the family of the soldier who was killed while on official duty and wish the injured a quick recovery.
“The UPDF mountain Division will institute a Board of Inquiry to inquest into the incident”. Said Maj Bilal Katamba public information officer UPDF Mountain Division and operation shujaa