{"id":46684,"date":"2022-09-23T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nyagatare-lightning-strikes-six-cows-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:23:29","slug":"nyagatare-lightning-strikes-six-cows-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nyagatare-lightning-strikes-six-cows-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes six cows dead in Nyagatare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred in the evening of Thursday 22nd September 2022 as it rained heavily in Karuhozi Village, Mbale Cell of Karangazi Sector.   <\/p>\n<p>The Executive Secretary of Karangazi Sector, Hope Mutesi has confirmed to IGIHE that the cows were struck dead by lightning in a farm.   <\/p>\n<p>She advised farmers to subscribe for livestock insurance so that they can get compensated in case of losses. <\/p>\n<p>Similar incidents have been happening in Nyagatare District. Recently on 7th September, lightning also struck four cows dead in Rwempasha Sector of the same district.  <\/p>\n<p>On 14th August last year, another resident identified as Scovia Kobusingye lost nine cows to lightning strike. He was however compensated 28 cows by kind people.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44305 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_1359-4-8bf96.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning struck the six cows dead in Nyagatare on Thursday 22nd September 2022 during heavy downpour.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Lightning has struck dead six cows belonging to a man identified as Martin Mugiraneza residing in Karangazi Sector of Nyagatare District.}<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46684","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\/46684","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=46684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46684"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46684"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}