{"id":37384,"date":"2018-04-27T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/passengers-unscathed-as-ritco-bus-burns\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:18:32","slug":"passengers-unscathed-as-ritco-bus-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/passengers-unscathed-as-ritco-bus-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers unscathed as RITCO bus burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bus registered number RAD 248K was carrying 56 passengers from Rubavu District in Western province heading to Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>According to local leaders on the scene, no passenger has been injured. <\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in Cyintare Cell, Kivuruga Sector of Gakenke District at around 8:15am this morning. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cNo person has died nor injured because when the driver saw smoke billowing from the engine, he requested all passengers to disembark and remove their luggage from inside the bus,\u201d the Executive Secretary of Kivuruga Sector, Jean Bosco Nkurunziza told IGIHE. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrived on the scene and extinguished the fire, but the bus had been completely damaged.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24984 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uko_yakongotse-c8c45.jpg\" alt=\"No passenger affected\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24983 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igitangira_gukongoka-32c43.jpg\" alt=\"The fire started from the engine\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24982 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aho_yahiriye-2-d0e70.jpg\" alt=\"The incident took place in Gakenke District\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public transport bus for Rwanda Interlink Company (RITCO) Limited has this morning caught fire in Gakenke, leaving it completely charred.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37384","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\/37384","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}