Two suspected robbers shot dead at Dr.Besigye’s Petrol station in Nsambya

The Police Flying Squad has shot dead two armed robbers at Total Petrol Station in Nsambya belonging to opposition strongman, Dr.Kizza Besigye.

According to Besigye who rushed at the scene after the incident, the employees of the fuel station were alerted by police of an impending operation before swinging into action.

“Someone from a vehicle that had parked at the lower side of the fuel station came and told employees that something was going to happen but that they should not panic. Later, bullets were fired and two people were shot dead,”Besigye said.

According to the opposition strongman, another vehicle later came and refueled from the petrol but during the process, two occupants were gunned down.

Deputy Kampala Metropolitan area police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the incident and noted it was a security operation.

“It was an intelligence led operation by police Flying Squad where two suspected robbers were shot at, one arrested and gun recovered,”Owoyesigyire told the Nile Post.

He noted more details will be communicated later as investigations go on.

The incident comes at a time when security is trying to dismantle a network of armed thugs who have been terrorizing the city by robbing mobile money points and later shoot dead the employees.

On Friday, a joint security team led four suspects to the crime scene of the robbery and subsequent murder of two mobile money dealers in Zzana.

The four  suspects including Stanley Mulunda alias Frank Jjumba Ssalongo was arrested before in another operation, Emma Onechan , Denis Mangusho both UPDF soldiers and another unidentified boda boda rider who were arrested after a raid at an apartment in Masanafu led detectives through the details of how they executed the robbery in Zzana.

The armed thugs who were travelling on motorcycles attacked a mobile money point at Kirimanyago village, in Zzana, Makindye Ssabagabo in Wakiso district before killing the occupants including Harriet Nalwadda, 33 and Maureen Nakabuubi.

Police said they had been involved in other murders and robberies in various parts of the city where they targeted mobile money points.