Only eight of the ten people who drowned after the boat they were traveling in capsized on Lake Albert have been retrieved.
Mr Julius Hakiza, the Albertine regional police public relations says the accident occurred on Thursday evening at the Kabolwa Landing Site in Buliisa District.
Eleven people were rescued by marine police and local divers.
They were traveling to Nebbi after returning a body of another fisherman who died.
Lake Albert has a history of boat accidents with the most recent being the October incident where two fishermen drowned near a landing site in Kagadi district.
In March 2014 about 250 people most of whom Congolese refugees died when a boat they were traveling in capsized as they tried to cross into Uganda.
In August 2012, five people died in a boat accident at Sansio Landing Site in Buliisa District, while in August 2010, another boat accident claimed the lives of 33 people while 17 others survived while travelling between two landing sites on the same lake.
