One person has been confirmed dead after he was hacked to death during fresh land clashes between two rice growing communities in the Nweyo-Amurwo wetland area on Saturday morning.
The deceased has been identified as John Martine Ofamba Obbo, a resident of Naweyo East Village, Namwendya Parish in Tororo District’s Sop Sop Sub-county.
Cross-boundary clashes between residents of Merikit and Sop Sop sub counties have also left two other people seriously injured.
Eyewitnesses told Monitor that Saturday clashes were reportedly led by a group of Iteso people from Tororo County, who attacked their Jopadhola neighbors in West Budama Northeast.
Both communities have been demanding full access to use a wetland on the border of West Budama and Tororo County.
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