{"id":2593,"date":"2021-05-14T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:21","slug":"three-drown-in-valley-dam-in-kyankwanzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/05\/14\/three-drown-in-valley-dam-in-kyankwanzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Drown in Valley Dam in Kyankwanzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Peter Abanabasazi\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three people including two people from the same family have drowned in a dam in Kyankwanzi district.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased have been identified as Farouk, Seruke and Ali all residents of Kololo village in Butemba sub-county, Kyankwanzi District.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Wednesday evening at around 7 pm when the three had gone to fetch water in one of the private valley dams in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Robinah Nakatemba, the area LC1 Chairperson says that the deceased had finished fetching water and resorted to swimming when they drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Nakatemba says that residents in the area have been warned against fetching water and swimming in the dam since it is deep and meant to be used by cattle.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nakatemba, the Dam is not fenced exposing many people especially the children to risk when they are sent by their parents to fetch water.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Kande, the Dam owner says on several occasions she warned residents from fetching water from the dam in vain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have warned the surrounding residents to stop fetching water from my Dam in vain and therefore I should not be accused since I dug the dam for my animals but area residents continue to fetch water in the dam;\u201d said Kahunde.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Kabagambe, a resident says that acute water shortage within Butemba Sub County is forcing residents to fetch water from private Dams meant for animal consumption.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of filing this story efforts to retrieve the bodies were ongoing by the locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi\u00a0 Three people including two people from the same family have drowned in a dam in Kyankwanzi district. The deceased have been identified as Farouk, Seruke and Ali all residents of Kololo village in Butemba sub-county, Kyankwanzi District. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening at around 7 pm when the three had gone [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}