{"id":40393,"date":"2025-08-25T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=40393"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:02:51","slug":"at-least-8-people-injured-in-sauna-explosion-at-buziga-country-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/at-least-8-people-injured-in-sauna-explosion-at-buziga-country-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 8 People Injured in Sauna Explosion at Buziga Country Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday evening, a sauna exploded at Buziga Country Resort in Makindye Division, leaving several people nursing burns and injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video footage circulating captured the chaos, with rescuers helping victims, including a woman who was severely burnt and rushed to the nearby Kiruddu Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the explosion, saying rescue teams had been dispatched immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eyewitness accounts suggest that at least eight people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations at the time of the blast pointed to overheating of the steam bath boiler and a suspected faulty valve, which caused gas to escape from a sealed container, triggering a violent mechanical blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, a sauna exploded at Buziga Country Resort in Makindye Division, leaving several people nursing burns and injuries. Video footage circulating captured the chaos, with rescuers helping victims, including a woman who was severely burnt and rushed to the nearby Kiruddu Hospital. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the explosion, saying rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8864,"featured_media":40394,"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":[9094,31,119],"class_list":["post-40393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buziga-country-resort","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40393","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\/8864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40395,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40393\/revisions\/40395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}