Five members of the same family have died after the house they were sleeping in caught fire at Nchaure Village in Koch Goma sub county in Nwoya District on Thursday.
Jimmy Patrick Okema, the Aswa River police spokesperson identieifed the dead as ohn Kennedy Oketa-ayot Wod Achieng, 45, a businessman, his wife Agnes Apiyo, 32 and their three children; Nyapolo Rebecca, 6, John Gum-kura, 4 and Angel Laker Angel Lucky,2.
Although police visited the scene, they couldn’t do much to save the victims since they did not have a fire-fighting truck.
The charred remains of the victims were taken to the Nwoya Hospital for postmortem and later handed over to the relatives for burial.
