The people of Rukiga are mourning the death of their own, businessman Apollo Nyegamehe, alias Aponye who died in a road crash on Thursday night.
The accident occurred on Thursday evening at around 2100HRS, at Itojo, along the Ntungamo-Mbarara Road. It involved motor vehicles registration number UBF 300Z Land Cruiser and UAZ 767D FUSO.
According to SP Kasasira Samson the PRO RWIZI, preliminary investigations indicate that Aponye’s car, the Land Cruiser which was headed to Kabale side rammed into a stationery truck that had got a mechanical problem and parked alongside the road.
The deceased’s body was conveyed to Itojo Hospital mortuary for a postmortem, while the rest of the occupants were rushed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital with injuries for treatment
