{"id":24787,"date":"2016-04-21T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lightning-strikes-nkombo-fisherman-dead\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:06:45","slug":"lightning-strikes-nkombo-fisherman-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lightning-strikes-nkombo-fisherman-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes Nkombo fisherman dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Nganiza Flaurien, 47,resident of Ishywa cell, Nkombo sector of Rusizi district  was yesterday night struck dead by lightning at around 9:00 pm while fishing on lake Kivu.}<\/p>\n<p>The acting executive secretary of Nkombo sector , Ntigurirwa Jean Baptiste, has told IGIHE that lightning hit two people who were in the boat fishing during the night instantly killing one. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that people were surprised for the lightning to strike when it was not raining heavily.   <\/p>\n<p>Ntigurirwa appealed residents on the island to avoid walking in rains and avoid the use of umbrella and other iron made materials to avoid lightning accidents.<br \/>\nIn 2014  lightning killed two people at Nkombo Island.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11850 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7df2bbd6be42ff41859d40862598da86.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Nganiza Flaurien, 47,resident of Ishywa cell, Nkombo sector of Rusizi district was yesterday night struck dead by lightning at around 9:00 pm while fishing on lake Kivu.} The acting executive secretary of Nkombo sector , Ntigurirwa Jean Baptiste, has told IGIHE that lightning hit two people who were in the boat fishing during the night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24787"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24787"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}