{"id":24088,"date":"2016-03-23T01:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-suspected-cannibal-bites-off-man-s-nose\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T01:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:20:42","slug":"uganda-suspected-cannibal-bites-off-man-s-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-suspected-cannibal-bites-off-man-s-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:Suspected cannibal bites off man’s nose"},"content":{"rendered":"

{When he turned to see who it was, the man immediately grabbed him by the neck and sunk his teeth into his nose, yanked off a chunk, swallowed it and fled to nearby bush.<\/p>\n

The police in mpigi are holding a 28-year old man over cannibalism.}<\/p>\n

Philip Mukasa, the police spokesperson for Katonga region, identified the suspect as Peter Ssebidde, a resident of Katwe Zone in Mpigi town council, who is currently under police custody for allegedly biting Simon Kasanya\u2019s nose.<\/p>\n

The incident happened on Monday night at a local bar located at Katwe zone.<\/p>\n

According to Kasanya, who was found making a statement at Mpigi central police station, he was trying to park his motorcycle at the bar to join his colleagues when someone grabbed him from behind.<\/p>\n

When he turned to see who it was, the man immediately grabbed him by the neck and sunk his teeth into his nose, yanked off a chunk, swallowed it and fled to nearby bush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was parking my motorcycle at the bar to join my friend for a drink and someone grabbed my neck and when I turned round, he bit my nose and run off,\u201d Kasanya said.<\/p>\n

Ssebidde was arrested at police where he had gone to report the case of assault but found his victim recording a statement at the same police station.<\/p>\n

Ssebidde is going to be subjected to a medical check up to establish his mental state or he if he was under influence of drugs.<\/p>\n

Ssebidde has been charged with unlawful wounding of a person and awaits court action once investigations are complete. <\/p>\n

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{When he turned to see who it was, the man immediately grabbed him by the neck and sunk his teeth into his nose, yanked off a chunk, swallowed it and fled to nearby bush. The police in mpigi are holding a 28-year old man over cannibalism.} Philip Mukasa, the police spokesperson for Katonga region, identified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2465],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-the-new-vision"],"bylines":[{"id":2465,"name":"The New Vision","slug":"the-new-vision","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2465,"name":"The New Vision","slug":"the-new-vision","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","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=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}