Gunmen Rob Link Bus
Passengers travelling on a Link bus Reg. no UBG 423 G, were on Friday morning attacked by a gang of robbers at Mpamujugu swamp along the Mityana-Kampala section of the highway.
The robbery incident happened at 2 am as the bus carrying 65 passengers was headed for Kampala from Bundibugyo district. Passengers have since reported to police at Mityana the loss of cash, phones, laptops and other valuable properties, however, no one was injured in the attack.
Wamala Region Police Spokesperson Racheal Kawala says a gang of 10 goons armed with guns, sticks, and hammers put up an illegal road block prompting the bus to stop before attacking. Kawala says the goons who were hooded ordered all passengers on the bus to exit and lie down on the road.
Kawala says police has since acquired CCTV footage related to the crime and is hunting down the gang of criminals.
This incident comes hardly two days after another Kampala- bound bus belonging to Link caught fire at Wakaliga traffic lights in Natete.
Three weeks ago, the Ministry of Works and Transport suspended the operations of the bus company after one of its buses was involved in an accident in Fort Portal killing 23 people.
In April this year, the Police Flying Squad Unit arrested six suspected masterminds of highway robberies along the Kampala-Mityana road.
According to the police, the suspects were conducting robberies from December 2021 to April targeting people transporting produce from Mityana, Mubende, Kassanda and Butambala districts.
It is alleged that the gang members were masquerading either as police or army officers on the lawful duty to their unsuspecting victims. In one of the robberies, on January 23, 2022, at Bamunanika village along Mubende- Kampala highway, the thugs dressed in army uniforms and armed with toy guns, machetes and hammers mounted a fake roadblock and robbed occupants of a Fuso truck registration number UBG 709G that was loaded with 80 bags of maize.
