Police in Kanungu arrest woman for suspected murder of boyfriend

Police are holding Enias Asiimwe, a resident of Muhororo cell in Southern Ward in Kanungu town council in connection with the death of her boyfriend.

Ely Maate, the Kigezi Region Police Spokesperson, says Asiimwe was picked on Tuesday over the mysterious death of Sadique Tukasingura.

Maate says the suspects was picked up while planning to escape and is being held at Kanungu Police Station under CRB 1038/2016. Preliminary information shows that Asiimwe met Tukasingura on November 13th, 2016 in Katokye trading center.

They decided to spend a night together at Asiimwe's residence where Tukasingura was found dead the next morning. Asiimwe's neighbor, Stella Kyakunzire, says that by the time they discovered Tukasingura's body the suspect had gone into hiding.
Police have handed over the deceased's body to Kambuga Hospital for postmortem to determine the cause of death. The suspect declined to comment on the matter when approached by our reporter.
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