Crime
Police investigate strangulation of 20-year-old woman whose body was dumped by the roadside in Mbale City
Police in Mbale City has commenced investigations into circumstances surrounding the death of a 20- year old girl in Doko- Nsambya cell in the Industrial City Division.
According to Rogers Taitika the Elgon Region Police Spokesperson, the deceased’s lifeless body was found lying by the roadside along Mbale-Tirinyi highway near Mbale Industrial park with injuries on the neck.
Taitika says that the deceased had a loose neck an indication that she could have been strangled to death and the body dumped by her killers. The police are yet to establish the deceased’s identity.
Police are yet to make any arrests made in connection to the death.
A team of detectives and scene of crime officers visited the scene to gather some evidence, while the deceased’s body is lying at Mbale City mortuary pending post-mortem.