{"id":273444,"date":"2024-08-10T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=273444"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:57:12","slug":"uganda-8-including-2-children-killed-in-garbage-dump-landslide-in-central-wakiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=273444","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: 8, including 2 children, killed in garbage dump landslide in central Wakiso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KAMPALA, Aug. 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; At least eight people, including two children, were killed following a landslide at a garbage dump in Uganda&#8217;s central district of Wakiso on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kampala Capital City Authority, the manager of the city waste, said the Saturday morning landslide came after torrential rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Kampala Capital City Authority Landfill in Kiteezi has had a structural failure in waste mass this morning, resulting in a collapsed section of the landfill,&#8221; the KCCA said in a press release posted on its official handle on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authority said concerted efforts with police, related ministries, and the Uganda Red Cross Society had successfully rescued 14 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On a very sad note, eight people have so far been found dead, six adults and two children,&#8221; KCCA added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, earlier told journalists before the forces arrived that three other people had been rescued by civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So far, the rescue mission is still ongoing to try and retrieve more bodies, if any,&#8221; Onyango said.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Aug. 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; At least eight people, including two children, were killed following a landslide at a garbage dump in Uganda&#8217;s central district of Wakiso on Saturday. The Kampala Capital City Authority, the manager of the city waste, said the Saturday morning landslide came after torrential rains. &#8220;The Kampala Capital City Authority Landfill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/273444"}],"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=273444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273445,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273444\/revisions\/273445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}