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Police Probe Mystery Body Parts
By Steven Candia
BLOOD. Exercise books. White-grey human matter, possibly the brain of a murder victim.
The bizarre cargo was recovered by the Police from the hind seat of a white Toyota Landcruiser Prado in Namanve, near Kampala yesterday. The Police have swung into action, investigating a possible murder of a student. The numberless Prado lost control and swerved off the road during a Police chase on Monday night.
Police suspect that the grey matter could be part of a victim�s brain, slain by the occupants of the get-away vehicle.
The suspected murderers fled their vehicle at about 11:00pm near the Coca-Cola plant on the Kampala-Jinja Road. They abandoned a mobile phone. No one was arrested. Neither has any body been recovered.
The exercise books bore the name of a girl, a senior three student of King of Kings secondary school, Iganga.
The Police yesterday held back the names of the girl, saying they were trying to establish �other details� from the school and the girl�s family.
But preliminary investigations revealed that the girl left the school last year for another unidentified one.
Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) officers were making frantic efforts to get in touch with the parents of the girl.
Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said, �We are trying to establish whether someone was murdered in the vehicle or it was being used to transport a body to a dumping ground.�
Police patrol sighted the Prado with suspicious-looking occupants, heading towards the city from Seeta, a city suburb.
The occupants made a U-turn and sped off. The Police hot on their heels, the suspects switched off the headlamps, made another U-turn and headed for the city. The Police would not be fooled. Soon after, the Prado driver lost control and crashed on the roadside. The occupants took off. The car was towed to the CPS.
Kampala CID chief Moses Sakira yesterday said efforts were being made to involve the Government chemist in the
investigation. He said all exhibits would be subjected to �all kinds of scientific study.�
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Published on: Wednesday, 27th November, 2002 |
