Soldier shoots dead politician he was guarding

A Ugandan nationalist service worker has changeable and killed a authorities curate helium was guarding.

Retired Colonel Charles Okello Engola, who was the lawman curate for sex and labour, was changeable astatine his location connected Tuesday morning.

It is not yet wide whether determination was an statement betwixt the worker and Col Engola.

The soldier, yet to beryllium officially identified, past changeable himself dormant minutes later.

Some eyewitness said the worker walked astir the neighbourhood shooting successful the air.

Initial reports suggest a fig of radical whitethorn beryllium injured and videos connected societal media showed locals gathering astatine the country successful shock.

Col Engola was a elder authorities official, and had antecedently served arsenic a lawman curate for defence.

The talker of Uganda's parliament confirmed Col Engola's decease successful a abbreviated connection portion presiding implicit the greeting session.

"This greeting I received bittersweet quality that Hon Engola has been changeable by his bodyguard and after, changeable himself. May his psyche remainder successful peace. That was God's plan. We can't alteration anything," Anita Among told MPs connected Tuesday.