Marine police on Friday morning recovered the body of a 60 year old identified as Eberu Sikondo.
The late Sikondo is believed to have drowned Tuesday after a heavy downpour in the area led to River Unyama breaking its banks and flooding the bustling Elegu Township, located at the Uganda- South Sudan border.
The deceased had been missing since Tuesday.
The discovery brings the number of the dead from the floods to two. The first victim was Charles Kawooya, a crane driver whose lorry was swept into a river in Pabbo Sub count also in Amuru. The late Kawooya’s body was recovered on Thursday.
The bodies of the deceased have been handed to relatives for burial, according to police.
The Aswa River region public relations officer Patrick Jimmy Okema said the polices’ marine unit was still carrying out a search in the floods.
Michael Okema, a councilor from Elegu said local leaders are verifying to find out the number of people still missing after the floods.
Meanwhile leaders in Amuru have proposed that those affected by the floods should be relocated to Corner Kilak in Bibia parish as the thread of more flooding looms.
The Tuesday evening floods submerged the entire Elegu border market and some parts of Bibia Parish, sweeping homesteads and displacing thousands.
The flooded River Unyama is a tributary of the River Nile
