{"id":35872,"date":"2017-09-20T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/heavy-rains-destroy-over-300-houses-in-rusizi\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:30:19","slug":"heavy-rains-destroy-over-300-houses-in-rusizi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/heavy-rains-destroy-over-300-houses-in-rusizi\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains destroy over 300 houses in RusizI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rains also damaged different infrastructures including churches, classrooms, and gardens.  <\/p>\n<p>According to IGIHE reporter in the district, the most affected areas are in Nyabitimbo sector where five people got minor injuries and two among them were taken hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 13 classrooms and packaging plant were de-roofed and two cells offices damaged while 22 hectares of banana plantations were razed down and 12 electricity pylons  fell down.<\/p>\n<p>The Rusizi District officer in charge of disaster management, Martin Nziranziza said that the damage could even be more  as the counting is still underway.<br \/>\nHe said that the rains caused disconnection of electricity in different parts of the district.<br \/>\nSectors that are most affected with disasters in the rain season are;  Butare, Bweyeye, Gikundamvura, Nyakabuye, Muganza and Nkungu.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21784 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fearf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21784 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fearf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 169 houses have been completely destroyed, 141 damaged and five people injured by heavy rains experienced ,  Tuesday afternoon in Rusizi District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-35872","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\/35872","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35872"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35872"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}