19-year-old footballer dies in Uganda accident
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nile Post
Alfred Mungudit, 19, died after a vehicle carrying football players collided with a truck on the road linking Arua to Nebbi, Uganda. Ten other passengers were injured in the accident on 8 November, as the team travelled to Arua for a match, according to police cited by Nile Post.
A 19-year-old student, Alfred Mungudit, died and ten other football players were injured on Sunday 8 November in a collision between their Toyota Noah and a truck on the Arua-Nebbi road in north-western Uganda. Mungudit, a Senior Five student at Nebbi Town Secondary School, died on arrival at Arua Regional Referral Hospital, according to Ugandan police.
The players from St Denis Afere, in Nebbi District, were travelling to Muni University in Arua for a football match. According to preliminary police findings, the driver of the Toyota Noah, registration UAQ 683B, was attempting to overtake several vehicles when he encountered a white Howo Sino truck, registration UA 530CL, coming in the opposite direction. The driver reportedly tried to avoid the truck by steering right, but the heavy vehicle hit the minibus and sent it off the road.
The ten injured people, aged between 19 and 26, were taken to hospital by police and the Red Cross. The two vehicles were impounded for inspection by the Vehicle Inspector, while both drivers fled and are being sought, according to the spokesperson for the West Nile police region, SSP Josephine Angucia. The investigation is being conducted by police in Arua Central Division under reference TAR 216/2026.
The accident occurred eight days after the deaths of four pedestrians on the Mityana-Mubende road, announced on 31 October 2026.
