Authorities in Uganda said a businesswoman was killed by a man she was having an extra-marital affair with after she ended their relationship because her husband had become aware of her infidelity.
Per the Monitor, the man who hacked his former lover to death also committed suicide after killing her. Authorities said that the deceased female victim, identified as Allen Turyasiima, 27, was a shopkeeper. The deceased man she was having the affair with was also identified as Osward Mushumbusha.
“Turyasiima had abruptly ended an extra-marital relationship she secretly engaged in with Mushumbusha after realizing that her real husband had known about it,” Greater Bushenyi Regional Police spokesperson SP Apollo Tayebwa said about the August 22 incident.
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Tayebwa said that Turyasiima was in her shop when Mushumbusha made his way there and killed her.
“The suspect, armed with a panga [broad heavy knife], allegedly entered the deceased’s shop while she was inside, locked it from inside before hacking the deceased to death and left the scene. Shortly after managing this incident, Sheema District police received distress information about suspected suicide by hanging within the same address,” Tayebwa said.
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Mushumbusha is said to have hanged himself on a tree branch after killing Turyasiima, and his body was later found by police and residents. The suspected murder weapon was also found close to his body.
“The scene of the crime was managed as per our police standard procedure and delivered the bodies of the deceased persons to Kabwohe Health Center IV for postmortem examination,” Tayebwa said. “Investigations are still ongoing and we shall provide updates in due course. As Police we strongly condemn all forms of violence driven by the mindset of lawlessness, anger and ego.”
Local leaders noted that the murder-suicide added up to the increasing domestic violence and rejection-related killings in the area, the Monitor reported.
“People are very stressed to the extent they can’t fight rejection. We are engaging LC1s together with police to intensify our community policing in order to engage masses,” Jane Asiimwe Muhiindo, the Resident District Commander for Uganda’s Sheema District, said.
“Most of the murder cases we have encountered in the district are when the two have misunderstandings, especially fighting rejection, and people resort to killing each other. We are engaging LC1s together with religious leaders and other stakeholders at village level such that we spot out who are the people we really need to speak to. Basically, it’s to intensify community intelligence such that some of the things that we do we can prevent before they happen.”
