four Uganda marine police officers on
Lake Albert in Ntoroko District over the weekend
Saturday 21st May 2016, armed men suspected to be Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers ambushed and shot dead four Ugandan Marine police.
The Saturday night incident happened in Lake Albert in Ntoroko District, near DRC border.
According to initial report from Uganda National Police, the killed marine officers were responding to an illegal fishing incident at Mulango on the Ugandan border.
The killed officers have been identified as Sergeant Faruk Waiswa, Corporal Biral Opara, Constable Moses Ocen and Constable Bernard Isingoma.
Report further state that the DRC soldiers took the corpse of the four Ugandan police to the DR Congo side and also confiscated the police speed boat and guns.
Police spokesman Fred Enanga confirmed the killings of the police officers while carrying out their duties saying investigations to establish the attackers and their motives launched.
Uganda security official set to meet in Kampala to discuss the way forward. In the last five years, contests between Uganda and DRC have been caught up in hard stances on where fishing grounds lay have on disputed Lake Albert waters.
The incident comes barely a week after 20 Ugandans were kidnapped by suspected South Sudan rebels.
