{"id":37107,"date":"2018-03-13T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/govt-condoles-with-families-of-17-victims-of\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:30:13","slug":"govt-condoles-with-families-of-17-victims-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/govt-condoles-with-families-of-17-victims-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt condoles with families of 17 victims of lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister and Government Spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo, has relayed the message of condolence to the families of the 17 Rwandans who were recently struck by lightning in Nyaruguru District &#038; Gisagara.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference with the the local and international media this morning at Kigali Conventional Center, Mushikiwabo assured the bereaved of government support in addressing disaster consequences. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI comfort Rwandans, families who lost their loved ones to lightning that struck on Saturday &#038; Sunday; the government  of Rwanda helped them as you may have seen. What happened is very sad; and we have to be cautious in this severe weather season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, March 11, 2018; different officials from Nyaruguru district came together to comfort families of the 16 worshipers who were struck by lightning in the district. <\/p>\n<p>The same day; around noon, another person was struck by lightning in Ndora sector, ADEPR Gisagara Church.<\/p>\n<p>{{Related: [Lightning kills 14 worshipers in Nyaruguru->http:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/lightning-kills-14-worshipers-in-nyaruguru.html]<\/p>\n<p>[Nyaruguru District to foot all medical bills for lightning survivors->http:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/nyaruguru-district-to-foot-all-medical-bills-for.html]}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24379 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/frfer.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Affairs Minister and Government Spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24380 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f43i.jpg\" alt=\"The 16 Rwandans who were recently struck by lightning in Nyaruguru district were buried on Sunday March 11, 2018\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda has condoled with bereaved families, whose relatives and friends were struck by lightning last week. <\/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":[196],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-olga-i-ishimwe"],"bylines":[{"id":196,"name":"Olga I. Ishimwe","slug":"olga-i-ishimwe","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":15}],"contributors":[{"id":196,"name":"Olga I. Ishimwe","slug":"olga-i-ishimwe","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":15}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107","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=37107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37107"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37107"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}