{"id":44258,"date":"2021-08-28T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/armed-assailants-shoot-down-five-cows-in-rubavu\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T05:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:15:04","slug":"armed-assailants-shoot-down-five-cows-in-rubavu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/armed-assailants-shoot-down-five-cows-in-rubavu\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed assailants shoot down five cows in Rubavu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place in Bereshi village, Hehu cell of Bugeshi sector last night around 10p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Fabien Mutuyimana, one of the area residents has said that assailants got suspicious of possible counter attack by Rwandan soldiers and withdrew to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after shooting cows.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident took around 10p.m where we heard gunshots. As we woke up in the morning, we learnt that assailants might have attacked from DRC where they returned after getting suspicious of counter attack by Rwandan soldiers.  They shot down five cows leaving of dead,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>It is said that assailants left ammunition and a grenade while no resident was injured during the attack.  <\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, local leaders and security officials have convened a meeting to comfort residents today morning.   <\/p>\n<p>Colonel Andrew Nyamvumba, the head of operations in the 3rd Division of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) has reassured residents that Rwandan forces are standby to protect the nation.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enemy feared soldiers and raided resident\u2019s cows.  I am convinced that you are aware of your soldiers\u2019 capabilities.  We know where the enemy is located. He wanted to gain attention for his existence. I would like to reassure that the enemy won\u2019t threaten again. We are dedicated to protect you and have capabilities to do so,\u201d he said.      <\/p>\n<p>Deogratias Nzabonimpa, Rubavu district vice mayor for economic affairs promised support to affected resident.  <\/p>\n<p>He appealed on residents to report susceptible security threats and assured that the district will work closely with DRC officials to bring suspects to book .  <\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, the affected resident got a promise of three cows.  <\/p>\n<p>They will be donated by Rubavu district, Bugeshi residents and Busasamana sector officials.  <\/p>\n<p>FDLR combatants last attacked Rubavu district on 10th December 2018. At the time, Rwandan soldiers repulsed the attack and killed seven of them.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39319 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima42fb-fe267.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39318 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima45a3-841c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39317 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima79d2-3ef06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39316 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima5114-2a560.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Armed assailants suspected to be combatants of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have shot five cows in Rubavu district belonging to a resident identified as Jean de Dieu Twagirayezu.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44258","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44258"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44258"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}