Unknown assailants set house ablaze, four family members burnt to death

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NTUNGAMO- Police in Ntungamo district are hunting for unknown thugs that set a house ablaze burning father and three children to death.


Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi region police spokesperson the police was in the wee hours of Monday 13th September 2021 at around 4:00am notified through a phone from Alex Masaba a private night guard on telephone 0776221745 that un known people had set a house blaze in Nyaburiza cell , Nyarutuntu sub county and that three children with their father got burnt to death.


Kasasira noted that following the call, the OC station, homicide team, fire rescue team, canine and soco responded immediately to the scene of crime and discovered that the assailants locked the deceased inside the house and set the house a blaze using petrol.
According to kasasira, the bodies of the deceased which were burnt beyond recognition were found lying inside the house.


Kasasira identified the victims as Obed Akampurira 28 , a munyankore peasant and a father to the children, Innocent Ainamatsiko 10, Peterson Natwijuka 9 and Patricia Ainembabazi 7 all residents of the same area.


It is said that the survivor who is theĀ mother of the children only identified as Birungi was rushed to the hospital for medication.


There was an odour of petrol in the surroundings and the assailants had abandoned a match box and a panga at the door way.


Police also discovered that Akampurira Obed has been a known motorcycle robber who had just left prisons and the assailants could have been after him since at one time he survived mob justice.


Kasasira revealed that postmortem was conducted at the scene and theĀ  efforts to identify suspects for thorough interrogation are on going.


Murder case by arson has been recorded at Ntungamo CPS under file number CRB 1081/2021.