{"id":15045,"date":"2020-05-02T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2020-05-02T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:09:30","slug":"several-still-missing-as-ferry-capsizes-on-lake-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/several-still-missing-as-ferry-capsizes-on-lake-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Still Missing as Ferry Capsizes On Lake Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people are still missing as a ferry they were travelling in capsized on Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By press time, 20 people escaped death by a whisker after they were rescued from a sinking water bus on Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had been traveling from Mageta Island to Usenge beach in Bondo sub-county in Kanya when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Chief of Mageta location Ambrose Ogema, the water bus had a mechanical breakdown after one of its engines failed near Sirigombe Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told Radio Ramogi that passengers who were aboard other boats went to the rescue immediately after they saw the water bus starting to sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Ogema said passengers who were on the water bus had already jumped out and since all of them had life jackets, none of them drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were later taken to the nearby Kabarua beach and others to Mageta health center for medical check-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Citizen TV Kenya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are still missing as a ferry they were travelling in capsized on Lake Victoria. By press time, 20 people escaped death by a whisker after they were rescued from a sinking water bus on Lake Victoria. They had been traveling from Mageta Island to Usenge beach in Bondo sub-county in Kanya when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}