The Directorate of Police Health Services has ruled out foul play in the death of its female police officer, Miriam Saidia Avaku and her one-year-old baby Rahima Nabirye.
The duo were discovered dead on Sunday morning inside their two-bedroom house at Nsambya police barracks.
In order to establish the exact cause of death, police pathologists last evening conducted a postmortem which has since revealed the cause of death for Avaku and Nabirye as carbon monoxide poisoning.
Quoting the report, Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said Avaku went to bed in a very good condition after a meal with other five house occupants at 8pm
But around 10pm, the baby suddenly woke crying and convulsing, forcing the maid, Angucia to wake up to make the baby stop crying but in the process she too lost conscious till 5am when the baby and its mum had died.
Angucia rushed to inform their immediate neighbor John Adukule and they checked on all other family members, discovering Avaku and the baby dead while other family members were well but weak.
Enanga speaking………
The scene of crime police officers have since established that there was a charcoal stove created in one of the rooms and it’s the one that emitted the carbon monoxide that killed Avaku, her baby and also made other occupants unconscious. May the souls of the deceased rest in peace. END
