An angry Ugandan soldier went on a shooting spree on Thursday killing seven people at a military barracks in Kampala, the capital.<\/p>\n
The soldier, who was eventually killed in a shootout with other soldiers following the incident at the Makindye barracks, has been identified as Sgt. Isaac Obua<\/a>.<\/p>\n Capt. Edward Burundi, a military police spokesman, said Sgt. Obua shot and killed the victims, who were all women and children, after a fight with his wife, who is also a soldier.<\/p>\n Sgt. Obua was apparently upset with his wife who he set out to kill. However, she managed to escape. It was while searching for her that he went on a shooting spree.<\/p>\n Sgt. Obua reportedly killed three children and a female soldier. He also shot the wives of three soldiers dead during the rampage. There are reports that at least two people were injured<\/a> in the shooting.<\/p>\n Army spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda announced the shooting on social media. “We are all mourning,” he tweeted.<\/p>\n Officials suspect that Sgt. Obua may have been under the influence of alcohol and marijuana during the rampage.<\/p>\n There have been similar cases of Ugandan soldiers resorting to violence over domestic disputes.<\/p>\n In 2014, a drunk soldier, who had been fighting over a woman in a bar, shot and killed ten people who were in the bar. Five soldiers are part of the victims.<\/p>\n Photo: Albany Associates\/Flickr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An angry Ugandan soldier went on a shooting spree on Thursday killing seven people at a military barracks in Kampala, the capital. The soldier, who was eventually killed in a shootout with other soldiers following the incident at the Makindye…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860],"tags":[4852,4853,4975],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ugandan-solider.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10438,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions\/10438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}