{"id":51395,"date":"2026-07-17T13:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51395"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:51:54","slug":"school-bus-crash-kills-21-in-eastern-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/school-bus-crash-kills-21-in-eastern-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"School bus crash kills 21 in eastern Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 21 people, including 20 school children, were killed and several others injured after a school bus crashed in eastern Uganda on Thursday evening, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kananura, spokesperson for the Traffic and Road Safety Directorate, said in a statement that the bus, carrying pupils from King David Junior School in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, crashed at Chekwatit Village in Kapchorwa District.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations indicate that the pupils had been on an educational tour to Sipi Falls in Kapchorwa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While returning from the tour, the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, which veered off the road, struck a large stone along the roadside and overturned,&#8221; Kananura said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police investigations into the exact cause of the crash are ongoing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 21 people, including 20 school children, were killed and several others injured after a school bus crashed in eastern Uganda on Thursday evening, police said Friday. Michael Kananura, spokesperson for the Traffic and Road Safety Directorate, said in a statement that the bus, carrying pupils from King David Junior School in the Ugandan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51397,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395\/revisions\/51397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}