{"id":11073,"date":"2026-04-14T06:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=11073"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:39:49","slug":"four-family-members-die-of-suffocation-from-charcoal-stove-in-kikuube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2026\/04\/14\/four-family-members-die-of-suffocation-from-charcoal-stove-in-kikuube\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Family Members Die of Suffocation from Charcoal Stove in Kikuube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Edward Byamukama<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fear has gripped residents of Mandwiiga village, Butoole parish in Kyangwari Sub-County, Kikuube district, after four people of the same family died following suffocation from charcoal fumes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident happened over the weekend when the victims lit a charcoal stove and started preparing meals in a shelter where they were sleeping leading to the accumulation of toxic carbon monoxide fumes believed to have caused their deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were found on Sunday dead in their temporary shelter made of tarpaulins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deceased has been identified as Jane Kansiime 54 years and her grandchildren including Janepher Nyiramashenjeso 13, Kwizeera 10 years and Phoiona Mutetsi 7 years old all residents of Mandwiiga village in Kyangwari Sub-County.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Butoole parish internal security officer-Deus Kisembo confirmed the incident and said the investigations by police have begun to establish the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He cautioned the public against the unsafe use of charcoal stoves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">By press time police forensic teams were on scene to conduct postmortem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edward Byamukama Fear has gripped residents of Mandwiiga village, Butoole parish in Kyangwari Sub-County, Kikuube district, after four people of the same family died following suffocation from charcoal fumes. The incident happened over the weekend when the victims lit a charcoal stove and started preparing meals in a shelter where they were sleeping leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bunyoro","7":"category-national","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}