The floods which are ravaging different parts of Uganda have left residents of Isingiro District after two people were killed over the weekend.
The duo was washed away by floods that followed a heavy downpour on Saturday morning, which also left more than one hundred people displaced.
Authorities in the areas identified the deceased as Kyarikunda Asiimire 15, a resident of Rubagano cell, Kagaara parish, Kabuyanda Sub County and Habibu Suleiman 22 a resident of Nyabuziiba, Kasana Parish, Bireere Sub County all in Isingiro district.
According to eye witnesses, Asiimire was washed by running water when she and her two friends had gone to collect firewood in Oruhenda forest reserve. Habibu on the other hand was swept by flash floods as he tried to cross a temporary bridge.
Nyabuziiba LCI Chairperson John Tushabe narrates that floods also cut off the bridge connecting Isingiro, Mbarara and Rwampara districts at Rwentondo in Nyakayojo Division and Nyabuziiba in Isingiro District.
Food crops like Bananas, Maize, beans have also been destroyed and residents risk suffering an unprecedented famine.
Nyakayojo Division LC III chairperson Jomo Mugabe noted that over 100 homesteads have been displaced in the four villages of Kibona, Rwentondo, Bugashe and Karama and blames the floods on encroachment of Kibona and Karama wetlands by members of the community.
