{"id":40337,"date":"2019-11-11T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-police-guns-down-two-ugandan-suspected\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:24:23","slug":"rwanda-police-guns-down-two-ugandan-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-police-guns-down-two-ugandan-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Police guns down two Ugandan suspected smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened yesterday in the wee hours around 3 am.  <\/p>\n<p>The statement released by Rwanda National Police reads that police officers on patrol saw people crossing to Rwanda\u2019s land but the latter confronted the police asking them to stop.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, November 10, 2019, at around 3 am in Tabagwe sector, Nyagatare district,  Police officer son patrol intercepted a group of suspected smugglers who crossed inside Rwanda territory at an ungazetted border point with Uganda,\u201d reads the statement in part.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smugglers became violent and assaulted police officers who reacted in self-defense shooting dead two while the rest escaped.  The deceased were identified as Job Ebindishanga, 32, and Bosco Tuheirwe, 35, both Ugandans,\u201d adds the statement.<br \/>\nPolice further stated that an investigation into the incident is underway.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda National Police condemns violent behavior by smugglers and urges the public especially those residing along the common border to focus on legal commercial activities using official border points,\u201d reads the statement signed by RNP spokesperson, CP JB Kabera.  <\/p>\n<p> In May 2019, more smugglers including a Rwandan and Ugandan were shot dead in the same area as they got physical with security officers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33344 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20191110-wa0152.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda National Police officers on patrol at Rwanda-Uganda border in Tabagwe sector of Nyagatare district have shot dead two men who confronted security forces as they smuggled goods to Rwanda through illegal entry points.<\/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-40337","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\/40337","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=40337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}