By Nathan Eyagu
Authorities in Soroti city on Tuesday evening 04,01,2022 found a dead body lying in one of the district local government offices with blood coming out of the mouth, which had started swelling with skin peeling off and flies buzzing around the room.
According to the East Kyoga police spokesperson, ASP Ageca Oscar Gregory, they received information at the territorial police of Soroti Central Police Station vide SD 86/04/01/2022 that there was a dead body in one of the offices at Soroti District Local Government offices where a team of police officers led by the District CID officer D/ASP Pande Grace Davis rushed to the scene and indeed established there was a body half-naked dressed only in underwear, the coat, trouser and a shirt hanging on the door and smattering of clothes and polythene bags being used for sleeping on the floor in an empty office space that is currently not being used for the purpose.
"The Uganda Police Force would like to state that the body has been identified as that of a well-known person within Soroti city with a mental challenge, that he has been sleeping in that office for a long time, and that he must have died between three to four days to date the body was discovered," Ageca said in a press statement.
The police later conveyed the body to Soroti regional referral hospital so that the cause of death is ascertained through a post mortem.
"We, therefore, ask any person or persons with information as to the identity of the deceased to come help with identification to allow for internment at his ancestral home." ASP Ageca added
