A soldier was killed and eight guns stolen in a dawn raid by unknown armed people on a military facility Friday morning in Gulu district, according to a local leader and military source in Gulu.
The attack happened at 3 am Friday morning at Opit trading centre in Lakwana division in Omoro county.
Odongo Darmasco, the Councilor 5 Lakwana Sub county said there was heavy gunfire as the thugs and soldiers in the detach exchanged gunfire.
The 4th Division army spokesperson Lt Ahmed Hassan Kato confirmed to Acholi Times that the military facility had been attacked, leaving one soldier dead and eight guns looted.
”We are doing everything possible to find out who the attackers are; their motives and ensuring the security of the people in the area,” Lt Kato told Acholi Times by phone this afternoon.
Opit army detach in Opit trading centre was was established around 1996 during the peak of the insurgency in northern Uganda to offer protection for internally displaced persons. The number of soldiers manning the detach is thought to have drastically reduced with the end of the insurgency in northern Uganda.
Opit is in Omoro County is represented in parliament by Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah. Oulanyah’s challenger was on Wednesday at 3 am abducted by unknown armed men from his home in Gulu town, according to family members. A case of his disappearance was reported to Gulu police. The whereabouts of Toolit, himself a former Omoro MP, remain unknown.
