{"id":31852,"date":"2022-07-20T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=31852"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:26:42","slug":"trailer-knocks-five-people-dead-in-bulambuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/trailer-knocks-five-people-dead-in-bulambuli\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Knocks Five People Dead in Bulambuli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five people have been knocked dead in an accident in Bulambuli District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accident occurred on Tuesday at 10 pm at Buyaga town council in Bulambuli district along the Muyembe-Nakapiripirit road when the victims who were riding on a motorcycle registration number UFL 488F Bajaj were knocked by a trailer registration number UAR 753K.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogers Taitika the Elgon Region Police Spokesperson identified the dead as Rogers Namawongu, a resident of Sironko, Zida Mutonyi, Rose Watsemwa. The police are yet to identify the other two victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Taitika, the truck from Mbale was heading to Kapchrowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paulo Mugoga, an eyewitness attributed the accident to overspeeding by the truck driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says that the driver lost control and rammed into the five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Taika, the police are hunting for the driver of the truck who fled after the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bodies were taken to Muyembe Health Center IV for postmortem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to traffic police statistics, 118 people were killed in road crashes between April 24 and May 4th, translating into 12 people or more losing their lives every day.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have been knocked dead in an accident in Bulambuli District. The accident occurred on Tuesday at 10 pm at Buyaga town council in Bulambuli district along the Muyembe-Nakapiripirit road when the victims who were riding on a motorcycle registration number UFL 488F Bajaj were knocked by a trailer registration number UAR 753K.&nbsp; Rogers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":31854,"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":[98],"tags":[7703,119],"class_list":["post-31852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bulambuli-district","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31855,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852\/revisions\/31855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}