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The UPDF Armoured Brigade has intervened in the recent spate of killings by unknown goons in the Greater Masaka Region.
This comes at a time when the Police force is already on the ground to contain the increasing unexplained killings.
In a space of 2 months, since July,18 people in the region have been attacked and killed by the unknown machete-wielding goons.
Brigadier Deo Sande, the Commander of the Masaka Armoured Brigade, says that they have launched joint operations with the police to hunt down the assailants.
He says they have already received intelligence information about the racket and they are following various clues that may lead them to the killers.
According to Paul Kole, the Masaka Regional Police Commander, they have intensified night foot and motorized patrols and tightened curfew enforcement.
The latest incident happened on Monday night when machete-wielding thugs raided Ssettaala village in Ssenya parish, in Kimaanya-Kabonera division in Masaka city and killed three people leaving another badly wounded.
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He says that whoever is found moving beyond curfew time may be treated as a suspect since the killings were committed during curfew.
Similar threats have happened before in the greater Masaka but have been defeated by security forces.
In 2017 and 2018, a ferocious criminal gang led by Muhammad Kiddawalime attacked and robbed locals after dropping letters with prior warning.
The group would soon be dismantled by security forces and sanity was restored.
