A combined team of marine police and local fishermen today recovered the body of a Saudi Arabian tourist who drowned in river Nile at the weekend while taking a selfie. Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Regional Police Spokesperson said that while taking the selfie , Alsubaie Mathkar slipped and fell into the fast-running water that swept […]
A combined team of marine police and local fishermen today recovered the body of a Saudi Arabian tourist who drowned in river Nile at the weekend while taking a selfie.
Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Regional Police Spokesperson said that while taking the selfie , Alsubaie Mathkar slipped and fell into the fast-running water that swept him away.
Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mugisa, who heads the Police Fire Brigade, Mathkar drowned on Saturday at Kalagala Falls, in Kangulumira sub-county, Kayunga District, where he had gone with colleagues for a tour.
Mathkar was in the company of two colleagues from Saudi Arabia, one Egyptian national and a Ugandan national, a source who requested to remain anonymous said.
Mugisa and Jamar Basalirwa the Police Commissioner, Protocol, oversaw the mission to retrieve the body from the roaring falls.
