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Video: Bishop Zac Niringiye injured in Ntinda robbery

Retired Anglican Bishop Zac Niringirye this Wednesday morning escaped with head injuries from an attack by an unknown gang in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb.

Bishop Zac Niringire was attacked by thugs this morning
  • Retired Anglican Bishop Zac Niringirye attacked by unknown gang in Ntinda, Kampala suburb
  • Attacked while jogging in the morning, suffered head injuries from a jumping kick
  • Assailants stole his phone and fled, leaving the bishop with blood coming out of his head
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The former Kampala Bishop was jogging in the morning hours when thugs moving on a bodaboda attacked him.

Eyewitnesses say one of them hit him with a jumping kick, sending him tumbling to the ground.

He then made off with the bishop's belongings including his phone, according to the first responders

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The cleric was found lying on the ground with blood coming out of his head.

He was rushed to hospital on a bodaboda.

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This isn’t the first time that Bishop Niringiye has been attacked in this fashion.

Back in 2021, he was hit on the head with a brick by robbers in Ntinda.

At the time he was having an evening stroll near Legacy Courts in Ntinda.

The assailants made off with his phone.

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