Uganda police say they have arrested a number of suspects over a recent spate of killings of women near the capital, Kampala.<\/p>\n
The Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, said that a suspect had confessed to killing eight women on the orders of businessmen.<\/p>\n
The murders were for ritual sacrifices, Gen Kayihura told residents of Nansana municipality.<\/p>\n
Local media say 17 women have been killed in a gruesome manner since May.<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Asan Kasingye told the BBC that while the murders occurred in the same district, they were not all related.<\/p>\n
He said that in the majority of cases, the victims were sex workers who had been raped and strangled in isolated places in “the wee hours of the morning”.<\/p>\n
“Two were students,” he said, adding that in five cases the women had been killed by their estranged partners.<\/p>\n
Mr Kasingye said the municipalities were at least 60 km (40 miles) apart.<\/p>\n
He said that Gen Kayihura was reacting to local media reports that the police had failed to apprehend the culprits.<\/p>\n
“In all but one of the cases the suspects have been apprehended,” Mr Kasingye said.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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