Police in Kampala have launched investigations into circumstances under which one person died after soil caved into a construction site on Friday.
The incident happened today at about 9am at a construction site at Mbiro Zone, Kafumbe-Mukasa Kisenyi II, Central Division in Kampala City.
According to the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire, two victims were rescued and rushed to Doctors Clinic, Mengo, but the one, only identified as Kato, succumbed to the injuries.
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Owoyesigyire says the dead body has been conveyed to the City Mortuary at Mulago as investigations into the incident continue. He adds that efforts are underway to track down the site engineers.
Kampala Capital City Authority Council (KCCA) Deputy Executive Director Eng David Luyimbazi says construction at the site was halted recently but he wonders how they reconvened works.
“It’s a deep excavation with a potential of collapsing any time because all sides are vertical deep foundations which are not safe,this site was stopped maybe because of being unsafe but I am yet to establish the facts," - he says
