{"id":18072,"date":"2018-10-11T20:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18072"},"modified":"2018-10-11T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:24:36","slug":"uganda-landslide-kills-seven-amid-heavy-downpours-red-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18072","title":{"rendered":"Uganda landslide kills seven amid heavy downpours: Red Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"82.6911468813\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least seven people have been killed in a &#8220;massive landslide&#8221; after heavy rains in eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/uganda.html\">Uganda<\/a>, the local Red Cross said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The preliminary report indicates that the number is likely to increase from the reported seven but we are yet to establish the actual numbers,&#8221; Uganda Red Cross spokesperson Irene Nakasiita said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nakasiita described the situation as tense with &#8220;community members scared and fleeing from their homes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime, the whole district, Bududa is still experiencing heavy downpour and we are expecting more of the same in other landslide prone areas,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Government efforts to move vulnerable people to neighbouring districts have faced resistance from residents.<\/p>\n<p>Bududa district in the foothills of Mount Elgon, which lies on the border between Uganda and Kenya, is a high risk area for landslides.<\/p>\n<p>At least 100 people were reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2010\/03\/201032125910498647.html\">killed in a landslide<\/a> in Bududa in March 2010 and in 2012, landslides destroyed three villages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people have been killed in a &#8220;massive landslide&#8221; after heavy rains in eastern Uganda, the local Red Cross said. &#8220;The preliminary report indicates that the number is likely to increase from the reported seven but we are yet to establish the actual numbers,&#8221; Uganda Red Cross spokesperson Irene Nakasiita said in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}