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A seven-month-old baby boy has been injured after being attacked by a baboon in Kigaragara village, Labongo subcounty, Masindi district.<\/p>\n
According to the child\u2019s biological father, Tumuhaise Muhereeza, the attack occurred on Tuesday (January 6)\u00a0at their home in Kigaragara village, which borders Murchison Falls National Park.<\/p>\n
The incident happened while the baby\u2019s mother was washing clothes in the courtyard, and the child was playing with another three-year-old.<\/p>\n
He explained that a group of baboons entered the area while fighting and grabbed the baby.<\/p>\n
This prompted the mother to raise an alarm, forcing the baboons to drop the child.<\/p>\n
The Labongo subcounty district councillor, Babyesiza Juma Wahid, confirmed the incident, saying the infant sustained three head injuries.<\/p>\n
He added that local leaders are engaging officials from the Uganda Wildlife Authority to ensure the family receives assistance.<\/p>\n
“When I received the information, I advised the parents to rush the child to Kitara Medical Centre, where he is currently receiving treatment.<\/p>\n
“As leaders, we will continue to engage UWA officials for their intervention,” he said.<\/p>\n
When contacted, Charles Okuta, the warden of Murchison Falls National Park, Masindi sector, confirmed receiving the report.<\/p>\n
He said a team had been dispatched to carry out investigations and establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
By press time, the baby was still admitted at Masindi Kitara Medical Centre, where he was receiving treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"_______________ A seven-month-old baby boy has been injured after being attacked by a baboon in Kigaragara village, Labongo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1128,7031,7032,7033,7034,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-10039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-baboon","10":"tag-baby","11":"tag-masindi","12":"tag-seven-month-old-baby-injured-in-baboon-attack-in-masindi","13":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}