A land dis­pute is fuel­ing vio­lence in the cap­i­tal of Uganda. Two peo­ple died dur­ing the sec­ond day of rioting.

An ancient king­dom that exists within Uganda claims that land belongs to their king­dom. Ruled by a cer­e­mo­nial king, this king­dom is engag­ing in a power strug­gle with Uganda’s gov­ern­ment. Many fear more will come as this king plans to make a visit to the dis­puted ter­ri­tory on Saturday.

From Reuters, reporter Jack Kim­ball wit­nessed some of the violence.

Gun­shots rang out in the Ugan­dan cap­i­tal Kam­pala on Fri­day and at least two peo­ple were killed as secu­rity forces clashed with riot­ers for a sec­ond day.

The vio­lence erupted over land and power dis­putes between Pres­i­dent Yow­eri Museveni’s gov­ern­ment and lead­ers from Buganda, one of the east African country’s four ancient kingdoms.

The largely cul­tural and cer­e­mo­nial Buganda king, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi, plans to visit the flash­point town of Kayunga on Sat­ur­day, mak­ing it likely there will be more bloodshed.

A Reuters reporter in the cap­i­tal saw the bod­ies of two young men with bul­let wounds. Wit­nesses said they had been shot by secu­rity forces rid­ing armoured per­son­nel carriers.

One of the dead men was in his 20s and was shot in the chest. The other was a teenager who had been shot in the head and was wrapped in a shawl, sur­rounded by sob­bing relatives.

“This kid was not in the protest. They shot him in a shop,” the boy’s mother told Reuters. She did not give her name.

Kampala’s streets were mostly deserted, and thick plumes of black smoke from burn­ing tyres rose over the city’s hills. Police said four peo­ple had been killed on Thurs­day in sim­i­lar clashes, but denied using exces­sive force.

Two for­eign exchange deal­ers told Reuters the mar­ket was shrug­ging off the vio­lence, and that they had seen no impact.

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