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Daily Monitor
Monday December 28 2020
Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine visits Mr Ashraf Kasirye, a Radio One journalist and an online Ghetto TV cameraman, at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital. PHOTOS/ DAVID LUBOWA
Summary
The bodyguard, Francis Senteza Kalibala, was run over by a truck at Busega in Wakiso District and later died at Rubaga hospital.
Another member of his press team, Mr Ashraf Kasirye, was also shot on the head and taken to Masaka Regional Refferal Hospital in critical condition.
Mr Kasirye was bleeding profusely in the head.
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A personal bodyguard to Opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, was yesterday run over by a truck, killing him.