{"id":39755,"date":"2019-07-30T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/two-children-die-in-abandoned-excavation-crater\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:11:49","slug":"two-children-die-in-abandoned-excavation-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/two-children-die-in-abandoned-excavation-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children die in abandoned excavation crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy happened on Sunday when both children drowned in the abandoned crater.  <\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson in Western Province, CIP Emmanuel Kayigi has told IGIHE that the crater was illegally used for precious stones extraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was used to illegally extract cassiterite. Artisan miners were warned against the extraction and abandoned the site, leaving it uncovered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>CIP Kayigi warned residents against illegal mineral extraction and requested miners to assign security personnel to prevent children from playing around mining sites. <\/p>\n<p>He also urged local leaders on collaboration to clear unused mining sites to prevent losses of lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two children aged 9 and 10 have died after falling in an excavation crater where minerals were extracted in Ntendezi cell, Ruharambuga sector, Nyamasheke 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-39755","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\/39755","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=39755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39755"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39755"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}