Police have confirmed that twelve people died in a motor crash early Sunday night along the Iganga-Bugiri highway.
Busoga East Police spokesperson Michael Kafayo who said investigations were ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash, noted that the crash which happened after a commuter taxi collided head-on with a trailer.
The accident which occurred at around 10pm at Lwaba Village in Kapyanga Sub-county,involed a Toyota Hiace taxi, registration UBQ 772A, which was heading from Kampala to Tororo when it crashed into a trailer carrying a container, registration KBM 175S, coming from Malaba side.
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Preliminary police reports indiate that a motorcycle rider attempting to overtake the trailer from the opposite direction may have triggered the collision.
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