Kampala Metropolitan Police are investigating circumstances under which an unidentified woman was killed while on a morning jog on Sunday, September 29.
“Yes it is true,” said Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango when contacted by this website to confirm the incident.
“I haven’t gotten all the particulars of the case but I will update you as soon as we get more information,” Onyango added.
He said one suspect had been arrested over the woman’s death.
“This incident happened along the Northern by-pass but near Kireka. Kireka Police are investigating the matter,” Onyango emphasised.
Earlier, a photograph of a lifeless body of a woman in a jogging outfit went viral on social media.
“Anyone with a friend or relative who went jogging in these kinds of attires please look for her,” a text accompanying the photo read, adding, “This woman was killed here at Nothernbypass near the Namugongo Road flyover!!”
In July 2022, James Kakooza, 54, a local Councillor in Kamwokya, Kampala, was killed by unknown assailants while jogging near Centenary Park.
Kampala Metropolitan deputy Police spokesman Luke Owoyesigire said then that Kakooza was on his routine morning jog and as he approached Yusuf Lule road along Centenary Park when “two unidentified men moving on a motorcycle hit him with a blunt object on the head and later fled the scene.”
Earlier this year, Bishop Zac Niringiye, who previously served as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Kampala, was attacked by unknown thugs in Ntinda, Kampala.
Niringiye was having a morning jog when a man on a motorcycle hit him on the back of his head.
The blow sent Niringiye, 70, hurtling to the ground. He survived the attack.
