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June 10th, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
Anglican Communion Office
London, England

[97.6.1.3]

UGANDA: BISHOP'S WIFE KILLED BY LANDMINE

(CEN) Mrs Winifred Ochola, the wife of the Bishop of Kitgum, in northern
Uganda was killed by a landmine on 23 May when a truck she was
travelling in hit a mine and killed her and three others. According to
the Church Mission Society in London the incident took place a long way
from ongoing military activity. The Bishop of Kitgum, the Rt Revd
Macleord Baker Ochola II, is a leading campaigner for reconciliation and
has made strong calls for an end to rebel activity in northern Uganda.