Uganda police find 17 human skulls at suspected shrine
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Kabanga: Seventeen human skulls buried in metal boxes have been unearthed in an underground chamber at a suspected shrine in the centre of Uganda, pol...
Kabanga: Seventeen human skulls buried in metal boxes have been unearthed in an underground chamber at a suspected shrine in the centre of Uganda, police told AFP on Tuesday.
Children foraging for firewood outside Kabanga village near Mpigi town, about 40 kilometres (24 miles) west of the capital Kampala, made the grisly discovery on Sunday, according to local residents.
Shocked and worried villagers told police there were metallic boxes containing what appeared to be skulls in an underground chamber beneath one of three ruined shrines on a sleepy hillside.
"We swiftly moved in and dug up the place, and so far we have recovered 17 human skulls," regional police spokesman Majid Karim told AFP.
"We are conducting more excavations to ensure there are no more skulls other than what we have so far recovered," he said.