{"id":284730,"date":"2024-11-28T17:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=284730"},"modified":"2024-11-28T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:07:22","slug":"uganda-at-least-30-feared-dead-after-landslides-struck-masugu-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=284730","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: At least 30 feared dead after landslides struck Masugu village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2024\/11\/28\/image-226901-1732781387.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, Nov 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 30 people were feared dead after landslides in a village in eastern Uganda, a local official said Thursday, warning the toll could rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We lost about 30 people,&#8221; Bulambuli district commissioner Faheera Mpalanyi said after landslides struck Masugu village, adding that six bodies, including that of a baby, had been recovered so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Given the devastation and the size of the area affected and from what the affected families are telling us, several people are missing and probably buried in the debris,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ugandan prime minister&#8217;s office said as many as 20 homes were feared to have been swept away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It issued a disaster alert, writing on X that: &#8220;Heavy rains on Wednesday in parts of Uganda have led to disaster situations in many areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The East African nation has been battered by heavy rains in recent days, with flooding in the northwest after a tributary of the Nile River burst its banks, causing emergency teams to be scrambled to rescue stranded motorists. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Nov 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 30 people were feared dead after landslides in a village in eastern Uganda, a local official said Thursday, warning the toll could rise. &#8220;We lost about 30 people,&#8221; Bulambuli district commissioner Faheera Mpalanyi said after landslides struck Masugu village, adding that six bodies, including that of a baby, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":284731,"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\/284730"}],"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=284730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284732,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284730\/revisions\/284732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}