{"id":22690,"date":"2021-03-26T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22690"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:31:08","slug":"fire-from-british-military-exercise-in-kenya-kills-5-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/fire-from-british-military-exercise-in-kenya-kills-5-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire From British Military Exercise In Kenya Kills 5 Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British High Commission in Kenya has confirmed that a fire started &#8220;during a UK led exercise in Loldaiga Conservancy&#8221;, which is near a base hosting British troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Reports of dead elephants are being looked into as a matter of urgency by the British Army, Kenyan Authorities and our Loldaiga Conservancy partners,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It added that the army exercise which had been ongoing had been paused &#8220;with all personnel now working to fight the fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least five elephants have died in the blaze that started on Wednesday night, the UK&#8217;s Daily Mail newspaper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK High Commission also said it was &#8220;extremely concerned&#8221; by a social media post by a British soldier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Daily Mail has printed a screengrab of the post in which the unidentified soldier says &#8220;2 months in Kenya and we&#8217;ve only got 8 days left &#8211; been good, caused a 4.5K fire, killed an elephant and feel terrible about it, but hey ho when in Rome&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Commission in Kenya has confirmed that a fire started &#8220;during a UK led exercise in Loldaiga Conservancy&#8221;, which is near a base hosting British troops. &#8220;Reports of dead elephants are being looked into as a matter of urgency by the British Army, Kenyan Authorities and our Loldaiga Conservancy partners,&#8221; a statement said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22690","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=22690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22692,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22690\/revisions\/22692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}