A 15-year-old boy, arrested for allegedly assaulting his 16-year-old girlfriend, died by suicide in Bamba Police Station cells on Sunday evening.

Police arrested Crispus Baraka, a Form Two student at Godoma Boys High School in Ganze, on Friday after his girlfriend's parents filed a complaint against him.

Ganze sub-county police commander Paul Yator said they arrested Baraka after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend in the nose and broke her left arm.

The police boss, however, disputed the deceased's age, saying that he was 18 years old and not a minor. "On Sunday evening, the boy went to clean the bathroom because it was his duty.