Police is yet to release the bodies of the Rwenzururu royal guards killed in the weekend Kasese clashes.
46 royal guards were killed when UPDF soldiers stormed the Palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere in Kasese town on Saturday.
But this morning, the relatives of some of the Royal Guards showed up at Kasese Police Station to claim the remains of their loved ones, only to be turned away.
A one Moses Muhindo, whose brother Davis Baluku was killed says he went to Kasese mortuary to collect the body but was told to first seek permission from police.
Mansur Suwed, the Rwenzori East Police Commander says the bodies will be handed to the families after postmortem has been carried out.
"We have taken the bodies to different mortuaries and postmortem will be done and then we hand them to the families", he said.
Meanwhile,
KTN Journalist Joy Doreen Biira remains in police custody after being denied police bond.
Ms. Biira was arrested last night alongside her husband and other friends who had come to attend her traditional wedding.
According to police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi, the journalist was arrested for going beyond security boundaries.
This afternoon, she was driven in a police car to her home which officers of the flying squad searched before taking her back to Kasese police station where she is being held.
Earlier this morning, Kaweesi said Biira would be released on police bond, but when her family showed up at the police station, they were denied access to her and instead insisted that her father comes to the station first.
Human rights lawyers Nichoas Opio is in Kasese to oversee her release
