According to information obtained by our reporter, Bakaki was 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.
An angry mob in Jinja
district has lynched a witch doctor while exhuming a grave. Hassan
Bakaki, 55, met his death on
Wednesday while exhuming the grave of the
late Domu Tidamulala, whose remains were buried in Kasozi village in
Busedde sub-county in 2004.
According to
information obtained by our reporter, Bakaki was 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.
Residents say Bakaki is a renowned witch doctor
from Luuka district, who was practicing rituals in Busedde sub-county and the neighboring
areas, but they were surprised to see him exhuming the dead.
Solomon Musiibe, the caretaker of the graveyard, says that people dashed to his home and informed him how witch doctors were digging up one of the graves. According to Musiibe, the
residents became unruly, turned chaotic, and lynched the suspect before
notifying local authorities.
Kiira Region police spokesperson, James Mubi says that they took the deceased’s body to
Busedde health center IV mortuary.
He said a team of detectives have been
dispatched to the
scene of the crime, which advised the
deceased's family members to rebury the exhumed remains.
