{"id":46985,"date":"2022-11-07T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-condoles-with-tanzanians-following-fatal-aircraft-accident\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:36:22","slug":"kagame-condoles-with-tanzanians-following-fatal-aircraft-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-condoles-with-tanzanians-following-fatal-aircraft-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame condoles with Tanzanians following fatal aircraft accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy sincere condolences to the people of Tanzania and to President Suluhu Samia Samia Suluhu Hassan for the loss of lives following the plane accident. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all the victims,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>The ATR-48 aircraft belonging to Precision Air plunged into Lake Victoria as it approached Bukoba Airport from the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam.  <\/p>\n<p>The plane was carrying 39 passengers. <\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the accident is related to bad weather but investigations are ongoing to establish the cause. <\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa has arrived in Bukoba District to join citizens for the funeral of the accident\u2019s victims at Kaitaba Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>He will be representing President Suluhu who is on a working visit to China. <\/p>\n<p>Bukoba Airport is located on the shores of Lake Victoria. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45099 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/51355341784_68423d496a_b-2-2831a.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has sent condolences to his counterpart of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan and the people of Tanzania over the loss of  lives following an aircraft accident. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45098 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uuh.jpg\" alt=\"Reports indicate that the plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday around 8:45 of Tanzania&#039;s local time (0545 GMT). \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has sent condolences to his counterpart of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan and the people of Tanzania over a fatal plane accident which claimed 19 lives on Sunday 6th November 2022.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46985"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46985"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}