{"id":39035,"date":"2019-03-26T11:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/heavy-downpour-destroys-about-100-houses-over\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:14:49","slug":"heavy-downpour-destroys-about-100-houses-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/heavy-downpour-destroys-about-100-houses-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy downpour destroys about 100 houses, over 1000 hectares in Kirehe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravages were predominantly realized in Nyamugari, Kigina, Nyarubuye, Mushikiri,<br \/>\nNasho and Mahama sectors. An inspection is underway to establish more damages that it might have caused. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Kirehe district, Gerard Muzungu has told IGIHE that storm water carried one child who was rescued by residents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTorrential streams carried a child who was rescued by residents and has been<br \/>\nadmitted at Rusumo health center,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Similar heavy downpour in Kirehe killed one person, destroyed 1600 houses, ravaged<br \/>\nNyabitare genocide memorial and Kankobwa cell offices on 10th March 2019. <\/p>\n<p>It also ravaged 228 houses, 5 kitchens, and two churches, 183 hectares of banana<br \/>\ntrees, 43 hectares of maize, 23 hectares of beet roots and 3.5 hectares of rice in the<br \/>\nsame area at the beginning of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Talking to the media last week, the mayor of Kirehe district Muzungu attributed<br \/>\nrecurrent ravages to lack of terracing and forests on hills surrounding the area. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it rains, torrential streams wash away the land. On the other side we have<br \/>\nmobilized residents to strengthen their houses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28558 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/people_in_somber.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28559 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/houses_destroyed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28560 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/floods-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28561 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bananas_fallen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain characterized by snow and violent winds yesterday destroyed about 100 houses and washed crops planted on 1 325 hectares in Kirehe district,<br \/>\nEastern Province. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-39035","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\/39035","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39035"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39035"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}