{"id":34416,"date":"2023-01-05T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=34416"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:07:14","slug":"two-year-old-child-hit-by-stray-bullet-in-hoima-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/two-year-old-child-hit-by-stray-bullet-in-hoima-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Year-Old Child Hit by Stray Bullet in Hoima City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A two-year-old boy was on Wednesday hit by a stray bullet fired by flying squad operatives attached to the Albertine regional police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim ltakabir Kyakuhaire is a resident of Bulemwa village in Hoima West Division, Hoima City.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kyokuhaire was injured when the operatives opened fire as they pursued suspected car thieves who were traveling in a car registration number UBB 533X Toyota wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Margret Atuhurra, the mother says, saw her son falling down and bleeding after the stray bullet hit him. They immediately rushed him to destiny medical center for medical attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashraf Kyakuhaire,&nbsp; the victim\u2019s father wants the police to compensate his child and also cater for the medical bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innocent Kusiima, a clinical officer at Destiny Medical Centre says that although the child was severely injured in the head, he is responding well to treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region Police Spokesperson has regretted the incident.&nbsp; According to Hakiza, after the incident, the flying squad operatives pursued the suspected car thieves and recovered the stolen vehicle which was abandoned in Kasingo cell in Hoima West Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year-old boy was on Wednesday hit by a stray bullet fired by flying squad operatives attached to the Albertine regional police. The victim ltakabir Kyakuhaire is a resident of Bulemwa village in Hoima West Division, Hoima City.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kyokuhaire was injured when the operatives opened fire as they pursued suspected car thieves who were traveling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":34417,"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":[5450,119],"class_list":["post-34416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hoima-city","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416","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=34416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34418,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34416\/revisions\/34418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}