Police have issued a warning against the increase in the number of robbery, burglary and petty theft cases anticipating that the situation is likely to worsen during the festive season.

A woman in Bushuro village, in Kitumba sub county in Kabale district drowned and died in a pond of water on christmas day.

Elly Maate , the Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman said that one of the victims Tugume David aged 34 a resident of Katungu village in Kambuga Town Council was found dead in his compound on the morning of Xmas day after he returned from a drinking spree in the nearby trading center.