The territorial police at Nsangi has registered an incident of death by electrocution today (20/01/2022) at 7am in Kasenge Trading Centre, the victims, who are all dead, have been identified as Asimmwe Babirye, 35, Annet, 24, and Jeremiah Sekalenzi, 5.
It has been established that the house where the deceased family was renting had no power, so they illegally tapped power from the neighborhood.
This morning after Annet washed clothes, she hanged wet clothes on one of the wires that had a link to power connection.
The electricity shook her . Her hands remained in contact with the live wire.
She made alarm, which attracted her sister Babirye Asiimwe who came out of the house to help her. Asimmwe touched her sister with bare hands to save her and she was also electrocuted.
She too made an alarm and her five-year-old child, Sekalenzi, who came to help his mother.
he too touched his mother and was electrocuted.
The trio died instantly.
The neighbours came and disconnected the wire from the power. Their bodies have been conveyed to the city mortuary Mulago for a post mortem. We convey our condolences to the relatives of the deceased.
However, the police would like to caution members of the public to avoid illegal power connections.
It is a criminal offence to illegally connect your residence to the national grid.
The police is working with power distributors to arrest people that have illegal connections in the area and Kampala Metropolitan Area.
The detectives have commenced investigations with a view of arresting the person, who illegally connected the residence to power.
ASP Luke Owoyesigyire,
Deputy PRO KMP
20.01.2022
