Police in Kampala is desperately searching for the body of a 6-year-old girl, who was yesterday swept away by floods during a heavy downpour in Nakulabye.
According to the Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, Norian Nakiyimba was first saved by the neighbour as she tried to pick her bungle from the running water but she escaped again and was swept away by the fast running water.
Police and residents led by the in-charge Nakulabye Police Station conducted a search earlier today, but their efforts had by press time yielded nothing. The search was extended to Lubiigi swamp along Northern Bypass.
The heartbreaking incident comes about nine days after seven people died in floods in two separate incidents as walls collapsed on them during the downpour that pounded the city.
Five people of the same family, including a mother and four of her children, died in Seguku on Entebbe Road when a wall fence of their neighbour collapsed during the downpour at about 5am.
Police identified the deceased as Aisha Nassali, the mother and wife of Sheikh Adinan Mujiraneza, Prosper Adinan, Promise Adinan, Umaria Adinan and Huzaifa Muzanganda. Sheikh Mujiraneza was not in the house as he had gone for morning prayers at dawn.
Another fatal incident happened in Kikajjo Zone, Namasuba on Entebbe Road where a mother, Immaculate Namaganda, and her daughter only identified as Galanyi, were killed by a collapsing perimeter wall weakened by floods.
