{"id":2432,"date":"2021-02-22T05:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","slug":"missing-7-year-old-congolese-refugee-found-dead-in-kyangwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/22\/missing-7-year-old-congolese-refugee-found-dead-in-kyangwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 7-year Old Congolese Refugee Found Dead in Kyangwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2434\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2434 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210219-WA0074-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210219-WA0074-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210219-WA0074-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210219-WA0074-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210219-WA0074.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugees at Kyangwali Refugee Settlement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 7-Year-old Congolese refugee who went missing from Kyangwali refugee settlement area in Kyangwali sub county Kikuube district has been found dead.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Safi Mwiringire, a resident of Kyabitaka village in the Kyangwali refugee settlement area was found dumped in a sweet potato garden with fresh wounds on the head and face. The body was discovered on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Mukamaana, the child\u2019s mother says her son went missing on February 16, 2021 from within Kyangwali Refugee settlement area as he went to play with his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>After waiting for her child to return home in vain, she reported a case of missing person at Kyangwali Police station on February 17, 2021.<br \/>\nHowever, on Friday, as the search for the child intensified, the body was found dumped in a potato garden a few meters from the child\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region Police spokesperson says one suspect has so far been apprehended to help police with further investigations. The suspect is 14-year-old Congolese refugee who is also attached to Kyangwali refugee settlement area.<\/p>\n<p>He says the suspect was last seen with the murdered child on the fateful day when he disappeared from home. Hakiza says upon his arrest, the suspect led a team of detectives to where he killed the child and dumped his body in a potato garden before covering the body with grass.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hakiza, the suspect used a sharp object to hit the child in the head and face. The suspect was immediately whisked to Kyangwali Police station where he is being detained.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the child has been handed over to the relatives for burial after postmortem had been done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale A 7-Year-old Congolese refugee who went missing from Kyangwali refugee settlement area in Kyangwali sub county Kikuube district has been found dead. The body of Safi Mwiringire, a resident of Kyabitaka village in the Kyangwali refugee settlement area was found dumped in a sweet potato garden with fresh wounds on the head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}