{"id":50454,"date":"2024-04-15T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muhanga-suspected-thief-shot-dead-attempting-to-stab-policeman\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:09:48","slug":"muhanga-suspected-thief-shot-dead-attempting-to-stab-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muhanga-suspected-thief-shot-dead-attempting-to-stab-policeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhanga: Suspected thief shot dead attempting to stab policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place around 5:20 a.m. on Monday, April 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the suspect disobeyed police orders, resisted arrest, and attempted to engage in physical confrontation with law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>CIP Emmanuel Habiyaremye, the Police Spokesperson in the Southern Province, stated that investigations into the incident have commenced, with further details to be provided later.<\/p>\n<p>Gihana Tharcisse, the Executive Secretary of Rugendabari Sector, explained that the suspect, who was found with two bags containing meat, resisted arrest and brandished a machete, prompting the officer to shoot him in self-defense.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-65722\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg\" alt=\"The incident occurred in Muhanga District. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A man suspected of stealing a resident&#8217;s cow in Rugendabari Sector of Muhanga District, Southern Province, has been shot dead by a police officer.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000065721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000065721,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/uyu_musigiti_uherereye_ahitwa_i_nyabisindu-4220b.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454","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=50454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000065721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50454"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50454"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}