Local Police will today start conducting postmortem on the bodies of the royal guards who were killed at the King’s palace. Some of the bodies are in mortuaries in Kasese and Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital.
On Monday, police turned away relatives of the deceased who had come to collect their remains.
But relatives of slain Police officers have been asked to go to the mortuary at Kasese Health Center to identify bodies.
Records at Kasese Police Station show that 55 people were killed on Saturday among them 14 police officers and 44 civilians believed to be royal guards. Another 46 royal guards were killed when the army launched an offensive on the palace of Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere.
King Charles Wesley Mumbere now jailed at Nalufunya Police station awaiting to be charged with treason has distanced himself from the cause. However, the authorities accuse his royal guards of training in the mountains alongside separatist militia forces to attack government installations.
