{"id":33015,"date":"2022-09-24T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=33015"},"modified":"2022-09-24T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:48:38","slug":"updf-helicopter-crashes-in-fort-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/updf-helicopter-crashes-in-fort-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF Helicopter Crashes in Fort Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Uganda People\u2019s Defense Force- UPDF helicopter has crashed in Fort Portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the URN reporter who is at the scene, the helicopter crashed into a mud and wattle house at Saaka at 10a.m, just half a kilometer from the airfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an eyewitness, three helicopters had just taken off from Saaka airfield but one of them crashed into the house.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eyewitness says that the occupant of the house who is an elderly woman only identified as Peruth was rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other witnesses said that two UPDF soldiers were seen disembarking from the helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPDF soldiers have cordoned off the scene of the crash to prevent on-lookers from getting to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Uganda People\u2019s Defense Force- UPDF helicopter has crashed in Fort Portal. According to the URN reporter who is at the scene, the helicopter crashed into a mud and wattle house at Saaka at 10a.m, just half a kilometer from the airfield. According to an eyewitness, three helicopters had just taken off from Saaka airfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":33017,"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],"tags":[31,119,7884],"class_list":["post-33015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news","tag-updf-helicopter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33015","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=33015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33018,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33015\/revisions\/33018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}