{"id":12039,"date":"2019-03-22T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12039"},"modified":"2019-03-22T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:27:20","slug":"man-seriously-injured-in-grenade-attack-in-buganda-commune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/man-seriously-injured-in-grenade-attack-in-buganda-commune\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously injured in grenade attack in Buganda Commune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gervais Hatangimana was grievously wounded in a grenade attack carried out at his home in Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province in the north-western part of Burundi. The incident took place in the night of March 20. Local authorities say the grenade was launched by a policeman called Celestin Nitunga based in that commune.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4808\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4808\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bureau-provincial-de-Cibitoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bureau-provincial-de-Cibitoke.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bureau-provincial-de-Cibitoke-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bureau-provincial-de-Cibitoke-600x398.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cibitoke Province chief town<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jacqueline Irambona, Hatangimana\u2019s wife, says her husband is a victim of her refusing to have an affair with Nitunga. &#8220;He proposed me to have sex with him and I refused. Since then, he vowed to hurt me and he has just executed his plan,\u201d Irambona says.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Kazihise, the neighbor of the victim says the alleged perpetrator of the attack was also wounded by the same grenade. &#8220;It&#8217;s Nitunga, the policeman who threw the grenade which also wounded him,&#8221; Kazihise told Iwacu.<\/p>\n<p>A source on the spot reveals that the victim&#8217;s neighbors would have avenged themselves on him if security forces had not intervened on time.<br \/>\nEmmanuel Bigirimana, Administrator of Buganda commune admits that the crime was committed adding that Nitunga is subjected to investigation by the prosecutor&#8217;s office in Cibitoke province. He believes that the reason behind the crime would be the settling of accounts between the policeman and the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gervais Hatangimana was grievously wounded in a grenade attack carried out at his home in Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province in the north-western part of Burundi. The incident took place in the night of March 20. Local authorities say the grenade was launched by a policeman called Celestin Nitunga based in that commune. Jacqueline Irambona, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[80,1363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12041,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions\/12041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}