{"id":3804,"date":"2014-07-09T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:08:56","slug":"ugandan-police-officer-shoots-aggressive-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/uganda\/ugandan-police-officer-shoots-aggressive-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Police officer shoots &#8216;aggressive&#8217; tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer in Uganda has reportedly shot a tortoise dead after being attacked by the &#8220;aggressive&#8221; creature.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the Nebbi district in the north of the country near the Congolese border. The officer &#8211; named as Charles Onegiu by the New Vision newspaper &#8211; said the animal entered his home and attacked him while he was enjoying a post-work cup of tea. &#8220;I tried to scare it but the tortoise became very aggressive. I took a stick to chase it but it instead became more violent,&#8221; he told the paper. After attempting to fend off the tortoise with a plastic chair, he said he &#8220;instinctively&#8221; drew his firearm and shot it dead. A local Christian group later prayed for Onegiu, &#8220;before burning the dead reptile to ashes.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uganda News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28197950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News East Africa <a title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer in Uganda has reportedly shot a tortoise dead after being attacked by the &#8220;aggressive&#8221; creature. The incident happened in the Nebbi district in the north of the country near the Congolese border. The officer &#8211; named as Charles Onegiu by the New Vision newspaper &#8211; said the animal entered his home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[258,256,2382,4695,2383,257,254,2384,4707,2062],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uganda","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aggressive-tortoise","tag-east-africa","tag-nebbi-district","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tortoise-attacked-him","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}