The mother of 9-year-old Arnold Mpuuga sent him out early Saturday morning to buy sugar and charcoal so that she could prepare breakfast for the family and before her husband departed for work.
Mpuuga found the nearby shop closed, prompting him to move farther upland to Kiteezi trading centre.
The boy returned about an hour later, but to the sight of horror and despair: the place he left as home had been carpeted by garbage sludge from a collapsed Kiteezi dumpsite.
His parents were no more and, just like that, Mpuuga said he became an orphan.
“Right now I don’t know any relatives. Our village is in Hoima [City],” he said, sobbing uncontrollably.
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