4 decapitated in ‘grisly’ Uganda murders: police

KAMPALA: Ugandan police launched a manhunt Friday for an attacker who decapitated four people in a series of "grisly murders" in the centre of the country.

Police said in a statement that two children, a woman and a 93-year-old man had been attacked by a single suspect in four incidents in Nakasongola, central Uganda on Thursday. In each case, witnesses describe a man hacking off the victim's head with a machete before fleeing.

"The security agencies in Nakasongola have increasingly intensified their search efforts to find an attacker wanted in an apparent killing spree of four people," the police said in a statement. "The victims include two male juveniles, one female adult and an elderly man, whose heads were all chopped off during the grisly murders."