The Local Council (LC) 5 chairperson of Hoima district, Kadir Karungi, has died in a road accident while driving from Hoima to Kampala.

It is not yet what caused the late Friday night accident; police is gathering further information and is yet to make a statement.

Preliminary information that one other person believed to be Karungi’s bodyguard was also killed in the fatal accident.

The killer accident happened at Kateera on Hoima- Kampala highway.