Makerere University students were left in shock when a tree fell hitting a waiting taxi that left four people injured at the institutions main gate.
The accident occurred at around 7pm on Saturday and left the taxi in pieces.
Eye witnesses account that the driver of the taxi sustained serious head injuries after attempts to escape from the falling tree.
With just a few months to his graduation, Makerere University journalism and communication student Badru Katumba’s passion for photojournalism is already paying off.
Katumba emerged the third runner up in the Daily Life category at Thursday’s Uganda Press Photo Awards (UPPA) ceremony held at the Uganda Museum in Kampala.
Election periods are significant in determining any country's future but on contrary such times in Uganda have never been peaceful. For instance, walk to work protests dogged post 2011 elections as opposition led by Kizza Besigye went to streets demonstrating against the then hiking cost of living. However, government decoded it as a mean to overthrow it, hence using an iron hard to quash the demonstration.