By Executive Editor

President Yoweri Museveni has said that the tourists killed last evening in Queen Elizabeth were a couple in honeymoo.

In a statement Wednesday, the President said “A couple of tourists and the Ugandan driver with them were killed at around 1800hrs on the Katwe-Kabatooro murram road, by “a small group of terrorists running away from our operations in Congo.”

“It was a cowardly act on the part of the terrorists attacking innocent civilians and tragic for the couple, who were newlyweds and visiting Uganda on their honeymoon. Of course, these terrorists will pay with their own wretched lives. However, killing these wretched individuals will not bring back the lives of these wonderful friends of Uganda, who had chosen our country for their honeymoon out of the 193 Countries of the world. Our High Commission in the UK will reach out to their families and provide whatever support is necessary in this tragic situation,” the President said

The President said, the UPDF, the Police, the UWA and Intelligences should ensure “these mistakes do not happen again and that ADF is wiped out. The wiping out is moving very well.”

“What needs to be done is to ensure that the remnants do not commit these atrocities,” he added.

According to the President, UWA was guarding tourists once they were in the Park. However, he said, “apparently, the tourists were arriving and departing individually.”

“It is this gap that they used. Secondly, the UPDF has been using a form of tracking these fugitive groups from Congo, Kufuata Nyayo – following their tracks (ekisinde, ekirari). There are more reliable ways of tracking, which we have discussed with the Army. The terrorists will be defeated, like Kony was defeated, and the cattle rustlers that have been killing people in Karamoja and the surrounding districts or those that were cutting People with pangas (bijambiya) in Masaka,” the President said.