Coffin protest over Uganda kidnappings
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Protesters in Uganda have dropped an empty coffin outside parliament to highlight what they say is inaction by the authorities over the rising number of kidnappings and murders of women, privately owned Daily Monitor has tweeted.
It is not clear if they entered the parliament grounds.
The police say there have been more than 40 reported kidnappings this year and most victims are women.
In one recent case a family in central Uganda was told to pay around $1,000 (£747) for the release of a daughter.
Relatives only managed to raise $300 and the kidnappers killed her.
The police say they have set up a new call centre to deal with the issue, but they say many of the cases are hoaxes as people stage-manage their owns kidnaps in order to get ransom money.
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