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The police are holding two security guard for shooting dead Quinto Opira, the former local council one chairperson, Parakaka Village, Golo, Latanya sub-county in Pader district Thursday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Kitgum.
Lawrence Elasu and Fred Hasahya, guards attached to Ceturian company were at the time deployed at the said facility when Opira, walked out of the hospital before lifting a stone.
Acting out of panic, the duo asked Opira to put down the stone, which he did not.
It is then that the suspects opened fire to scare the deceased.
However, a bullet strayed, hitting Opira in the chest.
Regional Police spokesman Patrick Jimmy Okema confirmed the incident.
He said Opira’s body is at Kitgum Referral Hospital for postmortem.
Opira was admitted at the hospital on January 5, 2020 having suffered pressure and malaria.
Okema said the diagnosis slid Opira into mental instability.
