{"id":16397,"date":"2015-02-06T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16397"},"modified":"2015-02-06T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:27:35","slug":"nwoya-accident-kills-8-injures-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nwoya-accident-kills-8-injures-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Nwoya accident kills 8, injures 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Accident victims in hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The police in Gulu are still hunting for the driver of a truck that was involved in an accident that left 8 people dead and 20 injured.<\/p>\n

Aswa Regional Police spokesperson, Jimmy Patrick Okema says preliminary findings indicate that the tyre of the truck burst causing it to overturn.<\/p>\n

He says a\u00a0Canter truck registration number UAT737L, that they were travelling in on Thursday morning over turned along Gulu- Olwiyo road at Lukutu village in Kochgoma Sub-county Nwoya district.<\/p>\n

The injured persons most of them traders are admitted at Gulu regional referral hospital and St Mary\u2019s Hospital Lacor<\/p>\n

The traders were from Gulu Town heading to Purongo Sub County in Nwoya District for an auction.<\/p>\n

The affected traders are those from Kakanyero and Kaunda ground temporally market sites where they were relocated to pave way for the construction of the multibillion Gulu main markets.<\/p>\n

One of survivors, who has bruises all over the body and complains of pain in the waist, Mr Ismail, Ziiwa Mbabali.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the first person to land on the ground and the vehicle landed on my hands first though I survived with minor injuries. At that time I got up and started helping those who were very hurt and later that is when I also collapsed and rushed here at Gulu regional referral hospital,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

According to Dr Abdulla Feituk, at the emergency unit at Gulu referral hospital, the injured persons have internal injuries and fractures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing our best and as we talk now there is some improvement and we are hoping for the best,\u201d
\nMs Joyce Amono, 31, a resident of Kasubi Village in Gulu Municipality, who is nursing head and chest injuries at St Mary\u2019s Hospital Lacor said when the tyre of the truck burst, the driver tried his best to control the truck but failed sending the truck to overturn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a gunshot sound, but we later realized that the front\u00a0tire of the truck burst. The driver tried controlling the vehicle but\u00a0maybe he realized he couldn\u2019t and decided to jump out,\u201d says Ms Amono.<\/p>\n

Within seconds, the truck flipped off the main road and overturned, I found myself at the edge of the road while my colleagues were buried under the truck and others in heaps of clothes screaming, adds Ms Amono.<\/p>\n

The in charge of the Surgery ward\u00a0 two at St Mary\u2019s Hospital Lacor, Sister Jane Ongwen, said some of the patients brought in critical\u00a0conditions are stabilizing given the treatment they are getting.
\n\u201cAround 12 people were brought in the emergency unit on Thursday, but only two are at the moment admitted at the intensive care unit with abdominal pain and fractured clavicle. Others at the surgery ward are now stable and we are seeing improvement,\u201d says Sister Ongwen.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur personnel responded swiftly to the accident scene and ferried the dead and injured to St Mary\u2019s Hospital Lacor and Gulu Regional Referal Hospital.<\/p>\n

We have confirmed of seven dead people whom the police\u00a0carried out postmortem on them,\u201d Mr Okema noted that the Police are still hunting down for the truck driver who has gone into hiding adding once apprehended, the law will catch up with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had several communities policing with these traders and even the truck drivers with the last one being last week on the dangers of over loading and over speeding but they seem not to understand,\u201d he said.
\nOver the weekend, two people perished in head on collision involving a Bakulu Bus and a trailer truck along Gulu-Juba road.
\nStory by Cissy Makumbi<\/p>\n

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Story by Cissy Makumbi<\/p>\n

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The police in Gulu are still hunting for the driver of a truck that was involved in an accident that left 8 people dead and 20 injured. Aswa Regional Police spokesperson, Jimmy Patrick Okema says preliminary findings indicate that the tyre of the truck burst causing it to overturn. He says a\u00a0Canter truck registration number UAT737L, that they were travelling in on Thursday morning over turned along Gulu- Olwiyo road at Lukutu village in Kochgoma Sub-county Nwoya district. The injured persons most of them traders are admitted at Gulu regional referral hospital and St Mary\u2019s Hospital Lacor The traders were from Gulu Town heading to Purongo Sub County in Nwoya District for an auction. The affected traders are those from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}