Bududa District

At least 20 homesteads in Bududa district have been destroyed by Landslides which also washed away crop gardens over the weekend. 

The police in Bududa are searching for a 10-year-old pupil of Buwali primary school in Bududa district who allegedly stabbed his friend to death in a fight and disappeared into thin air.

Seven dead bodies have been recovered while 30 other people remain unaccounted for after residents were buried underground after landslides hit parts of Bududa District early this week.    

Panic has gripped Bukari Primary School in Bukibokolo Sub County in Bududa district after a Primary Seven Pupil collapsed and died in an examination room as they started their Primary Leaving Examinations, this morning.

60 people died in the recent landslides that hit Bududa district again. The number which had been put at 46 earlier has now moved to 60, according to the spokesperson disaster committee, Wilson Watira.

At least 44 lives perished in a landslide late last week and their families have now received an apology from President Yoweri Museveni in consolation.

Government has been tasked to find a lasting solution to the Bududa District killer landslides that have cost Uganda of hundreds of citizens since 2010.

Conditions in the four sub counties of Bukalasi, Buwali, Nalwanga, and Bubiita in Bududa District are worrying after residents started transported dead bodies on boda bodas for lack of help from the line ministry and Red Cross.

Residents of Nanyele village in Busiriwa parish Bukulecheke Sub County in Bududa district are in panic after one of their own, a 65 year old Topista Seera was mutilated by an unknown assailant.