NO TOOLS TO DIG UP UGANDA MASS GRAVE

UGANDAN police said on Tuesday they were unable to start examining a possible new mass grave used by members of a Doomsday cult believed to have murdered around 900 of its followers because they lacked equipment. Officials say they had sealed off a house in a Kampala suburb rented by cult leader “Father” Dominic Kataribabo after locals noticed a strong smell coming from the ground following a heavy downpour last week. “We are not really equipped for the job and it is unlikely we will be going there soon,” police spokesman Eric Naigambi said. He did not explain what equipment was missing but said a special task force was being created to deal with the issue. The government was heavily criticised last month for using bare-footed prisoners to exhume nearly 400 corpses from mass graves at homes belonging to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in southwestern Uganda. Around 500 other cult members were burned alive in a church at Kanungu in the same region on March 17.