News card: Kisoro businessman and his wife shot dead at their home gate in southwest Uganda

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Kisoro businessman and his wife shot dead at their home gate in southwest Uganda. Locator map (Wikimedia Commons, NordNordWest, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, markers added) of southwestern Uganda with a red dot on Kisoro, in the far southwest corner beside the Rwanda and DR Congo borders, and grey dots for Mbarara and Kampala near Lake Victoria. Key facts: about 11 PM Saturday Oct 17 local time, 4 PM Eastern, police say; a businessman and his wife were killed; they were shot by unidentified gunmen at their gate while returning from their wholesale shop; no arrests as of Sunday and the motive is unknown, police say; police and UPDF soldiers were deployed to track the attackers, the deputy resident district commissioner says. Sources: Daily Monitor, Pulse Uganda, Kigezi Guardian. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-17-ug-kisoro-couple. @exeindex. — Map: NordNordWest, Wikimedia Commons, File:Uganda_location_map.svg, markers added by EXE Index · CC BY-SA 3.0 de; derivative shared alike; card by EXE Index

Oct 17, Kisoro, Uganda: a businessman and his wife were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at their home gate as they returned from their shop, police say. No arrests yet; the motive is unknown.

What: News card: Kisoro businessman and his wife shot dead at their home gate in southwest Uganda
Where: Africa
When: 2026-10-17
Source: Daily Monitor
Credit: Map: NordNordWest, Wikimedia Commons, File:Uganda_location_map.svg, markers added by EXE Index
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 de; derivative shared alike; card by EXE Index
Details: Africa, Uganda

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Sources and credit

Daily Monitor
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