{"id":31388,"date":"2016-12-27T00:53:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-at-least-30-football-players-and-fans\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:53:22","slug":"uganda-at-least-30-football-players-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-at-least-30-football-players-and-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:At least 30 football players and fans drown in Uganda&#8217;s Lake Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 30 Ugandan members of a village football team and their fans drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized on Lake Albert during a party, police said Monday.}<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a party on the boat, the passengers were dancing and others were drunk. The boat was overloaded with 45 people, all members of the football team and local fans,&#8221; police commander John Rutagira told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water was calm but the problem came in when the merrymaking team and fans tilted on one side of the boat&#8230; It capsized killing about 30 people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers working with local fishermen managed to rescue 15 of the revellers, who were heading from the village of Kaweibanda in the western Buliisa District to watch a friendly Christmas Day match in Hoima District, Rutagira said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident was the second major disaster on Uganda&#8217;s lakes in three days. On Friday, about 20 people perished in similar circumstances on Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal accidents are frequent on Ugandan waters. Last November, 10 people drowned in Lake Albert on the country&#8217;s western shore.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17307 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix-6.jpg\" alt=\"Survivors of a boat accident come back ashore on Lake Albert, on December 26, 2016 in Buliisa, after at least 30 Ugandan members of a village football team and their fans drowned when their boat capsized on Lake Albert during a party. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 30 Ugandan members of a village football team and their fans drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized on Lake Albert during a party, police said Monday.} &#8220;There was a party on the boat, the passengers were dancing and others were drunk. The boat was overloaded with 45 people, all members of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388","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=31388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31388"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31388"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}