Two youngsters thumped dead on Hoima-Fort Portal street

A quickly moving vehicle has thumped dead two youngsters along the Hoima-Kikuube-Fort Portal street in Kikuube locale.

The mishap happened close to Buhimba town gathering in Kikuube locale on Monday evening at around 4pm.

The Toyota Sprinter Carib vehicle enrollment number UBB 825A that thumped the two youngsters dead was purportedly going to Hoima city from Kikuube at the time it engaged in the mishap.

It is affirmed that the two youngsters matured somewhere in the range of 12 and 16 years whose characters were not promptly accessible when the mishap happened were riding on bike and attempted to go across the street when the quickly moving vehicle slammed into them, killing them immediately.

Musa Mugisa, the LC3 executive Buhimba town committee says the driver took off to a yet obscure objective after the mishap and deserted the vehicle at the location of the accident.

Julius Hakiza, the Albertine area police representative says traffic police from Kikuube raced to the mishap scene and picked the inert assemblages of the two kids that were subsequently taken to Kikuube wellbeing focus IV forthcoming posthumous.

As indicated by Hakiza, primer police examinations show that the accident was caused because of speeding by the driver, adding that right now, they are chasing after the driver who is on the run.

He says traffic police towed the destruction of the vehicle to Kikuube focal police headquarters.

The accident comes scarcely three weeks after the Kikuube town gathering LC5 councilor Birari Nyakojo was killed in a lethal mishap along the Hoima-Kikuube-Fort Portal street in Kikuube locale.

Nyakojo who was riding on a cruiser slammed into a fixed innumerable farm truck that that been left by the side of the road on November 2, 2021.

The mishap happened at the Mairirwe exchanging focus Buhimba sub district.

At the hour of his demise, Nyakojo was supposedly coming from Hoima City making a beeline for his home in Kikuube town board.