{"id":241277,"date":"2023-10-18T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=241277"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:33:00","slug":"two-foreign-tourists-local-guide-killed-in-attack-in-western-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=241277","title":{"rendered":"Two foreign tourists, local guide killed in attack in western Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/10\/768x432\/skynews-uganda-africa-queen-elizabeth_6324927.jpg?20231017191821\" alt=\"Uganda, Africa - March 22, 2023: Entrance to Queen Elizabeth National Park\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, Oct 18 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Two foreign tourists and a Ugandan guide were killed Tuesday evening after their safari vehicle was attacked in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have registered a cowardly terrorist attack on two foreign tourists and a Ugandan in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The three were killed, and their safari vehicle burnt,&#8221; the Uganda Police Force said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police blamed the attack on Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our joint forces responded immediately upon receiving the information and are aggressively pursuing the suspected ADF rebels. We express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bashir Hangi, the communications manager of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, which manages the country&#8217;s national parks, told Xinhua by telephone that they had not been able to identify the victims because their documents were burnt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday, ADF rebels burned a civilian&#8217;s truck trailer and killed at least one occupant in a road ambush in Kasese, about two km from the border with the DRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, ADF rebels attacked a school in Kasese killing more than 40 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday warned of possible retaliatory attacks by ADF rebels following military air strikes on their camps in eastern DRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugandan troops, together with their DRC counterparts, have been jointly fighting the rebel group since November 2022.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Oct 18 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Two foreign tourists and a Ugandan guide were killed Tuesday evening after their safari vehicle was attacked in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, police said. &#8220;We have registered a cowardly terrorist attack on two foreign tourists and a Ugandan in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The three were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241284,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241277\/revisions\/241284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/241278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}