{"id":18557,"date":"2015-02-08T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-airforce-major-perishes-in-entebbe\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:41:22","slug":"uganda-airforce-major-perishes-in-entebbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-airforce-major-perishes-in-entebbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Airforce Major Perishes in Entebbe Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police have commenced investigations into circumstances under which the Uganda Airforce, Major Kiwanuka, died in a road accident along Entebbe Road on Sunday night.}<\/p>\n<p>The deadly accident occurred at around 6:00pm at Kitubulu, just a few kilometres from Entebbe town.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the Airforce told ChimpReports that Kiwanuka was travelling from western Uganda with his driver in a Toyota Noah brand car when he rammed into a taxi, killing all its occupants on spot.<\/p>\n<p>Several others sustained life-threatening injuries in the blood-spattered incident.<\/p>\n<p>The accident caused a monstrous traffic jam in Entebbe yesterday as hundreds of grief-struck partiers leaving the beaches along the shores of Lake Victoria gathered to take a glimpse of the blood-soaked bodies of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a horrific scene. Plucking the smashed flesh from the car\u2019s wreckage was heart-wrenching,\u201d said Davis Mwiine, 25, an eyewitness.<\/p>\n<p>Previous causes of accidents along Entebbe Road have since been blamed on drunk-driving, over speeding and recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>Police are expected to issue a statement later on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police have commenced investigations into circumstances under which the Uganda Airforce, Major Kiwanuka, died in a road accident along Entebbe Road on Sunday night.} The deadly accident occurred at around 6:00pm at Kitubulu, just a few kilometres from Entebbe town. Sources in the Airforce told ChimpReports that Kiwanuka was travelling from western Uganda with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000056150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-18557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000056150,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18557.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000056150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=18557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}