Authorities are investigating circumstances under which a 15-year-old boy has been killed by a stone quarry in Hanga village in Labbongo sub county Masindi district western Uganda.
after discovering a dead body of a 15-year-old boy under a huge stone at a stone quarry site on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
Wilson Mugisa, a councilor representing Kihaguzi parish to Labbongo Sub County told our reporter that he was informed by the quarry site operators about the unfortunate incident.
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Mugisa added that he went to the site where he was told that the deceased had climbed and sat on a broken stone that rolled and fell on him, killing him instantly.
He added that this prompted him to inform Masindi police who later rushed to the site and removed the huge stone from the boy’s body.
The quarry site was the source of the stones that China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) that tarmacked the Kisanja-Paraa road but later handed it back to the owners, the family of late William Kyoomya Rumbeiha.
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The councilor therefore appealed to the parents in the area to avoid sending their children to the site that he said was declared out of bounds by the sub county authorities after realizing the dangers it posed to the people.
Bosco Njangu, a relative to the deceased, said Fikiri left home early in the morning to collect stones for his boss when he suddenly met his death.
Police had by press time picked the body and conveyed it to Masindi main hospital for postmortem.
