A 55-year-old witch doctor in Jinja district has been killed by an angry mob who found him digging a grave.
The deceased is Hassan Bakaki and he met his death on Wednesday while exhuming the grave of the late Domu Tidamulala, who was buried in Kasozi village in Busedde sub-county in 2004.
Bakaki was allegedly in the company of two other people who were helping him to perform the rituals but they managed to get away from the scene of the crime, leaving him in the hands of an angry mob.
According to area residents, Bakaki is a renowned witch doctor from Luuka district, who was practicing rituals in Busedde sub-county and the neighboring areas. They were however surprised to see him exhuming the dead.
The graveyard caretaker says that people rushed to his home and informed him how witch doctors were digging up one of the graves. However, the residents became unruly, turned chaotic, and lynched the suspect before notifying local authorities.
James Mubi the Kiira Region police spokesperson says that police took the deceased’s body to Busedde health center IV mortuary, while detectives have been dispatched to the scene of the crime, which advised the deceased's family members to rebury the exhumed remains.
