{"id":7666,"date":"2024-09-13T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:00:53","slug":"falling-tree-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/09\/13\/falling-tree-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Tree Kills Seven-Year-Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Godfrey Muhumuza<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A seven-year-old girl has died instantly after a falling tree hit her in Kyamasamba village, Haibaale parish in Kigorobya Sub County, Hoima district on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident occurred while a group of people were cutting trees, and one of the trees fell in an unexpected direction, hitting the deceased who was collecting firewood killing her instantly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hoima District LC5 Chairman Uthman Mubaraka Mugisha has confirmed the incident, noting that passers-by alerted the lumberers after they saw a child who had fallen on the ground with a branch of a tree on top of her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hoima District Assistant RDC Michael Kyakashari noted the details were still scanty, but a team of detectives had been sent to the scene to investigate the matter and a detailed report would be released in due course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Godfrey Muhumuza A seven-year-old girl has died instantly after a falling tree hit her in Kyamasamba village, Haibaale parish in Kigorobya Sub County, Hoima district on Thursday. The incident occurred while a group of people were cutting trees, and one of the trees fell in an unexpected direction, hitting the deceased who was collecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","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=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}