{"id":34445,"date":"2023-01-08T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=34445"},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:22:08","slug":"21-dead-49-injured-in-lwakhakha-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/21-dead-49-injured-in-lwakhakha-bus-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Dead, 49 Injured in Lwakhakha Bus Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A road crash in Lwakakha has claimed the lives of 21 people and left many more in critical condition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrict Kitau, the District police commander Bungoma District in Kenya, says that the crash occurred around 8pm on Saturday in Lwakhaha, Kenyan side 3 kilometer from Uganda Kenya Border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Kitau, the dead were traveling on a bus Registration Number KCL 850M which belongs to Nairobi Bus Company which and travelling from Mbale to Nairobi which veered off the road and overturned several times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says preliminary investigations reveal that the cause of the crash&nbsp;was overspending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kitau says, they are establishing the identities of the deceased crash victims, but confirmed that majority of them are Ugandan nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their bodies are lying at&nbsp;Chepteyis and Lwandanyi hospital mortuaries waiting to be identified by their relatives while the injured are receiving treatment at the same hospitals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an eyewitness, the bus was moving at a high speed and failed to negotiate small corner and veered off the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says the driver is believed to have been also drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A road crash in Lwakakha has claimed the lives of 21 people and left many more in critical condition.&nbsp; Patrict Kitau, the District police commander Bungoma District in Kenya, says that the crash occurred around 8pm on Saturday in Lwakhaha, Kenyan side 3 kilometer from Uganda Kenya Border. According to Kitau, the dead were traveling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":34446,"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":[31,8203,119],"class_list":["post-34445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-nairobi-bus-accident","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445","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=34445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34447,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions\/34447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}