{"id":29245,"date":"2016-10-08T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/traditional-healer-arrested-over-student-s-death\/"},"modified":"2016-10-08T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T14:45:54","slug":"traditional-healer-arrested-over-student-s-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/traditional-healer-arrested-over-student-s-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional healer arrested over student\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A traditional healer, Sebakungu Damasc\u00e8ne, 62, in Karengera sector of Nyamasheke district, has been arrested over  a secondary school student who died while under his custody.  }<\/p>\n<p>The late, Habimpano Samuel, 15, died on Monday at the home of Sebakungu where he had gone to be traditionally healed of poison related sickness. He was a senior one student of Groupe Scolaire Karengera. <\/p>\n<p>The executive secretary of Karengera sector, Mutuyimana Gabriel, has told IGIHE that the child died at the home of Sebakungu where his parents had taken him for traditional treatment.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that the child died at his home and the traditional healer is under custody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the child had received drugs from a health center but parents decided to take him to the traditional healer, suspecting to have been poisoned. <\/p>\n<p>He appealed on residents to seek medical attention from health centers  when they fall sick other than relying on traditional healers. <\/p>\n<p>The child was buried on Tuesday after  an autopsy at Bushenge hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Sebakungu is detained at Ntendezi police station as investigations are get underway.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15573 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"The executive secretary of Karengera sector, Mutuyimana Gabriel,\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A traditional healer, Sebakungu Damasc\u00e8ne, 62, in Karengera sector of Nyamasheke district, has been arrested over a secondary school student who died while under his custody. } The late, Habimpano Samuel, 15, died on Monday at the home of Sebakungu where he had gone to be traditionally healed of poison related sickness. He was a [&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-29245","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\/29245","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=29245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29245"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29245"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}