WAKISO, UGANDA: Police in Kampala Metropolitan are investigating how a two-year-old child drowned in flash floods that devastated Kampala city and Wakiso district in a Tuesday morning rain.
The deceased identified Bostiline Ainebyoona, 2, whose mother lives abroad was staying with the caretakers identified as Charles Makumbi and Clare Asiimwe, both residents of Bulabira zone in Najjera, Wakiso District.
According to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango, Ainebyoona was playing with other kids inside when she moved out and fell into the trench outside the house.
Ms Asiimwe who was washing clothes inside at the time of the incident told Police that she didn’t know how Ainebyoona sneaked out of the house and fell into a trench next to her doorstep that was flooded at the time and ended up drowning in it.
Onyango said today’s rains “disrupted traffic flow within Kampala Metropolitan as sections of some roads were flooded and motor vehicles could not easily move through.”
Among videos posted on social media on the rain was one showing a motorcycle, abandoned by its rider, being washed away by flood waters on Yusuf Lule Road.
Twitter got flooded with photos of motorists stuck in heavy jam on wet roads and pedestrians negotiating through flooded stretches while others waited out the unending rainfall.
It was a day to forget for some businesspeople, who lost property worth millions after their shops, houses and offices got filled with rainwater.
Police said properties worth millions of Shillings were destroyed due to water that entered people’s shops, houses and offices.
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