Truck body found, occupants missing

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By Kundu Ronald

The container body of the Mercedes SINO truck that plunged into Karuma bridge on Tuesday has been found after a joint operation by the Uganda National Roads Authority, Police marines and sister security agencies.

The truck registration number UAT 113F was transit from Elegu in South Sudan carrying charcoal on Tuesday at around 10:00am when it lost control and plunged into the fast flowing falls.

Police and UNRA have spent the last two days searching for wreckages of the truck or bodies of the occupants along the Karuma Bridge waterfall banks.

Details of the seen container indicate that the truck belonged to sabagifco Limited, a logistics company located in Namanve industrial park in Kampala however the real contents have not been identified as police was not allowing locals and journalists close to it.

Efforts to retrieve missing bodies of the driver who was identified as Tumusiime James and other two occupants are on along the water banks. 

UNRA has already started construction works to replace the safety rails that were broken at the bridge.

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