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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Police in Jinja City have arrested 30 suspected gangsters who were travelling for the burial of one of their colleagues who was lynched by a mob after he was found stealing in Bugweri District on Monday.<\/p>\n

Police say they have been hunting for this particular group of suspects who waylay their victims using motorcycles and vehicles at night along the highways of Jinja-Kamuli, Jinja-Iganga, and within city centres.<\/p>\n

According to police, the group usually loads grabbed items on to the motorcycles and the said vehicles during night attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people that police have been looking for to apprehend for various crimes committed have been arrested. We received a report that they were traveling to Bugweri District for the burial of one their colleagues killed by the mob. We put roadblocks and arrested them in Bugembe (Jinja),\u201d said Kiira Police spokesperson James Mubi.<\/p>\n

According to Mubi, one of the 30 gangster suspects is alleged to have participated in the brutal murder of Ugandan weightlifter Prosy Nyanga. Nyanga was killed in Bugembe in September 2022.<\/p>\n

Mubi noted that the group members are always armed with machetes among other dangerous weapons- and ride on motorcycles with a following vehicle following where they put their loot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do this such that when they get them, they can easily claim they were not the ones upon checking their motorcycles,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t use one car but they keep on changing differently. One of their cars is a Subaru and police are yet to establish the number plate,\u201d Mubi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Mubi also disclosed that police are going to embark on arresting landlords who rent out a single room to be occupied by more than three people when the property owners don\u2019t know origins of the house occupants.<\/p>\n

Almost 100 people are killed annually by machete wielding assailants in Uganda, according to data from Ugandan authorities.<\/p>\n

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