There has been a mass exodus from the restive Kasese town as bodies of policemen who died in clashes with the guards of the king of Rwenzururu are being transported to the main police station in the area.
There are more corpses than refrigerators at the health facility’s morgue, leaving others to decay.
Locals say that the bad odour, has affected activities of nearby Kasese Primary, Mother Care Preparatory, Kasese High, Kasese Junior and Celaca Vocational schools.
Emotional relatives and friends yesterday paced up and down between the police station and the Kasese Health Centre III to establish if their missing persons were dead.
Another school, Mother Care Preparatory School where the children had complained to the school administration after bullets were fired in the area for two successive days has been closed and children sent home.
There is too much tension in the usually busy town stamped by heavy military deployments.
Police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi told reporters that 62 people died in the clashes at the weekend.
Other reports says 82 people were killed including 16 police officers and the king’s guards.
