{"id":53642,"date":"2025-03-31T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-truck-driver-dies-in-accident-near-uganda-rwanda-border\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:40:35","slug":"rwandan-truck-driver-dies-in-accident-near-uganda-rwanda-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-truck-driver-dies-in-accident-near-uganda-rwanda-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan truck driver dies in accident near Uganda-Rwanda border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elly Mate, the spokesperson for the Uganda Police Force in the Kigezi region, reported that the accident occurred at the Kyanamira trading center along the Mbarara-Kabale highway. <\/p>\n<p>Muhire was driving a Sinotruk truck from Mbarara to Kabale when he lost control of the vehicle at Kyanamira, causing it to veer off the road on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mate, the accident was caused by brake failure, which led to the truck overturning. Muhire died instantly at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>His body was taken to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital for a post-mortem examination before being repatriated to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84572\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kabale-5-e7b49.jpg\" alt=\"The body was taken to hospital for postmortem. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan police have confirmed the death of a 23-year-old Rwandan truck driver, Muhire, who died in a road accident in Kabale District, near the Uganda-Rwanda border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000084571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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":2000084571,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/5e24f8827c28537.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53642","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=53642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000084571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53642"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53642"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}