{"id":42274,"date":"2022-12-30T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kumi-blast-victims-had-visited-grandfather-for-christmas"},"modified":"2022-12-30T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:41:18","slug":"kumi-blast-victims-had-visited-grandfather-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kumi-blast-victims-had-visited-grandfather-for-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Kumi blast victims had visited grandfather for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Wednesday presented a chance for three children in Kumi District to explore their curiosity but all did not end well.<\/p>\n

Their joy to explore the grandfather\u2019s compound turned deadly as an explosive mistaken for a ball blew up in their faces.<\/p>\n

According to their grandfather, Mr Richard Okipi, the children started their day running from one side of their family compound to the other, until later in the afternoon, when their curiosity led them into a live explosive wrapped in a polythene bag.<\/p>\n

On spot, the explosive claimed the life of Dinah Mary Acam, 4, while Patricia Ingolet, 5, died at her hospital bed in Ongino hospital.<\/p>\n

The other, Brian Epaja, 8, is still struggling for his life in hospital as the already agonised grandparents stare at the reality of burying all their grandchildren on the same day.<\/p>\n

Visit of no return<\/b><\/p>\n

The grandchildren belonging to Ms Betty Adong and Mr Moses Alenger, who divorced three years ago, had come to visit their mother at her home in Kanapa Village, Kanapa Sub-county, when the tragic deaths unfolded.<\/p>\n

Mr Okipi says his grandchildren found the polythene bag behind the house of Francis Okaje, a former UPDF officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe children with their inquisitive nature, later used the object as a small ball, that is when tragedy unfolded, claiming the life of my grandchildren, one died on the spot, the other, the stomach was reduced to threads by the time she was rushed to hospital,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Epaja, 8, who is being treated at Ongino hospital, told Daily Monitor that it\u2019s her younger sister, Acam, who picked the explosive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bang was so loud, I saw my sister pushed a distance by the loud bang, I saw Patricia with a damaged stomach,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ms Adong says she had brought her children to celebrate Christmas with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t control my emotions, how will I do without my children, and what will I tell Moses?\u201d she yelled as she looked towards the hospital morgue in Ongino where the bodies of the deceased children lay.<\/p>\n

Mr Alenger, the father of the deceased, in company of other relatives, who were yesterday intercepted from staging a revenge attack on his in-laws\u2019 home, claims that the explosive could have been set up by his in-laws to kill his children.<\/p>\n

Father not convinced<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was an abandoned explosive, it shouldn\u2019t have been wrapped in a polythene bag,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Mr Washaki Ahamada, the Kumi Resident Commissioner, called for restraint from the husband\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs members of security, we are investigating how an ammunition that is meant to be in custody of the security ended up in the open, and subsequently claiming lives of the little children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Police say investigations are underway.<\/p>\n

Mr John Michael Okwii, the parish chairperson, says such an incident had never happened despite the fact that the area has many retired army officers.<\/p>\n

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