{"id":8520,"date":"2013-06-18T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ugandan-journalist-beaten-to-death\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T05:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:50:42","slug":"ugandan-journalist-beaten-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ugandan-journalist-beaten-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Journalist Beaten to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda Police are investigating the killing of a journalist, Thomas Pere 36, whose body was discovered dumped in a field Monday  morning during a routine police patrol.}}<\/p>\n<p>The slain journalist is believed to have been beaten to death and later dumped in the field by unknown people. He has been working at New Vision as a features writer and occasionally engaged in photography.<\/p>\n<p>The Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Ibin Ssenkumbi, said the deceased\u2019s body was found with wounds on the head resulting from beating with a blunt object, possibly an iron bar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wallet, phone and other possessions of the deceased were retrieved hence ruling out theft and robbery,\u201d Ssenkumbi said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2981 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/xxc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{additional reporting: NV}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda Police are investigating the killing of a journalist, Thomas Pere 36, whose body was discovered dumped in a field Monday morning during a routine police patrol.}} The slain journalist is believed to have been beaten to death and later dumped in the field by unknown people. He has been working at New Vision as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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\/8520","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}