{"id":37136,"date":"2018-03-16T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lightning-strikes-burns-down-bugesera-hotel\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:23:12","slug":"lightning-strikes-burns-down-bugesera-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lightning-strikes-burns-down-bugesera-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes, burns down Bugesera Hotel building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the Vice-Mayor of Bugeresa District, Priscille Uwiragiye said that it struck yesterday around 3:00pm. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cLightning struck the building, but luckily there were no people inside. There were heavy rains with lightning. In the building, there were computers and the lightning damaged them and started fire which gutted the whole house ,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said that efforts by people to extinguish the fire were futile. <\/p>\n<p>Lightning cases continue to increase in the country since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (MIDIMAR) show that among 33 people killed by disasters since January to March, 27 were killed by lightning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24432 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2018-03-15_at_16.28.56-dc1b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24431 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2018-03-15_at_16.28.58-9c903.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24430 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2018-03-15_at_17.26.58-fb26c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24433 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2018-03-15_at_17.27.02-cbea7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning that followed heavy rains in Bugesera District yesterday struck one building of La Palisse Hotel Gashora in Gashora Sector and started fire which gutted the building and  different materials. <\/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-37136","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\/37136","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=37136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37136"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37136"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}