{"id":45680,"date":"2022-04-20T11:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rain-destroys-bridge-connecting-muhanga-and-gakenke-nine-days-after\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:11:27","slug":"rain-destroys-bridge-connecting-muhanga-and-gakenke-nine-days-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rain-destroys-bridge-connecting-muhanga-and-gakenke-nine-days-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain destroys bridge connecting Muhanga and Gakenke, nine days after inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 60-meter bridge was inaugurated on 11th April 2022 following nearly three months of rehabilitation works. <\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Southern Province, Alice Kayitesi has told IGIHE that the destruction was occasioned by heavy downpour. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bridge was destroyed during night hours. Technicians have informed us that the incident resulted from heavy rain which saw River Nyabarongo flooding. Structures of bridge in matter are placed on the side of Muhanga in Rongi Sector,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>Kayitesi has explained that Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Marine Regiment has arrived in the area to help residents cross the river using boats and support movements between both districts. <\/p>\n<p>The Governor also revealed that a team of technicians and the Engineering Brigade which had built the bridge and Rwanda Transport Development Authority (RTDA) visited the area to seek how they can work together to fix the issue.  <\/p>\n<p>Rehabilitation of the bridge had been completed at a tune of more than Rwf185 million.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41989 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abridge.jpg\" alt=\"The bridge has been destroyed in less than two weeks after inauguration. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41990 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/inau.jpg\" alt=\"The 60-meter bridge was inaugurated on 11th April 2022 following nearly three months of rehabilitation works. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The heavy rain which poured down in the morning of Tuesday 19th April 2022 has destroyed the bridge connecting the districts of Muhanga and Gakenke that was inaugurated in less than two weeks.} <\/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-45680","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\/45680","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=45680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45680"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45680"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}