Uganda: Man Killed Over Pineapples

23 October 2016

Luweero — A 35-year-old man was on Saturday killed by an angry mob at Kirimantungo village in Kamira Sub-county, Luweero District, bringing the total number of people killed through mob justice to eight in a spell of just two months in the District.

Edward Ssekanyo, a casual labourer at one of the farms in Kamira Sub-county was killed by people who accused him of stealing pineapples from a garden at Kirimantungo village in Kamira Sub-county.

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