Sadness has gripped residents of Bison B village in Western Division, Tororo Municipality, following the death of Emmanuel Ochieng a 16-year-old Primary seven pupil at Industrial View Primary school.
Ochieng fell into a pit latrine at home on Tuesday evening and was rushed to a health facility where he died on Wednesday morning.
According to his uncle Stephen Odur, the teenagers returned home at around 5 pm from school greeted him, and proceeded on his way. He, however, says that 5 minutes later he had an alarm from his children that Ochieng had sunk in the pit latrine.
It took them over 2 hours to retrieve Ochieng, who had already gone into a coma from the pit latrine and rushed him to Tororo General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Martin Okello Katandi, one of the residents, says that the pit latrine, which killed Ochieng was old and dilapidated.
Eridad Ochola, the deceased’s teacher at Industrial view primary school said that Ochieng left the school a few minutes after completing his last mocks examination papers only to hear that he got stuck in a pit latrine.
He described Ochieng as one of the brightest candidates that they had hoped would secure for the school the first grade in the forthcoming primary leaving examinations.
