Police in Kabalagala is investigating circumstances under which a 21-year-old woman was hacked to death in her boyfriend’s house.

Akello Rachael a resident of Tororo district was found dead with deep wounds to her body at Kabalagala in the makeshift of 26-year-old ogen-tho Brain a support staff working as a turn man in Police Nsambya barracks.

Police are treating this murder as a case of domestic violence.

Preliminary information shows that Akello was murdered in the wee hours of Wednesday after she reportedly fought with her boyfriend, the two had been cohabiting for a while now.

The deceased and ogentho Brain had a heated fight the previous night that was witnessed by neighbours and then the following morning, ogentho Brian left for Masindi after locking the body of the deceased in his house

Police were called to the scene after residents alerted them that there was a dead body in the house of the Ogentho and the body was taken to City Mortuary for postmortem.

Police also managed to net Ogentho from where he had gone into hiding in Masindi and he is waiting to be transferred to Kabalagala Police Station to face murder charges.