{"id":15002,"date":"2020-01-24T06:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2020-01-24T06:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:43:49","slug":"three-corpses-discovered-in-southern-burundi-within-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/three-corpses-discovered-in-southern-burundi-within-five-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Three corpses discovered in southern Burundi within five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead body was found on the morning of 22 January in Lake Tanganyika.<br \/>\nThe deputy chairman of the Burundian association of fishermen operating in Lake Tanganyika says the victim is a fisherman called Stanislas Ntikarahera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14996\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14996\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rumonge-Police-et-populations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rumonge-Police-et-populations.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rumonge-Police-et-populations-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rumonge-Police-et-populations-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rumonge-Police-et-populations-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rumonge-Police-et-populations.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He had gone missing since the night of 19 January.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was reported missing while he had gone fishing with his colleagues,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nPolice officers together with fishermen recovered his body and brought it to the mortuary in Rumonge Hospital.<br \/>\nThe police say they have started investigations to identify the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n<p>The second body of a sixty-year old man identified as Protais Marora, was discovered in the evening of 21 January in Nyamugera locality of Munini area in Bururi commune of Bururi province in the south of Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>His body was packed up in a mosquito net and laid in sweet potato field. The police have already arrested four people for investigative reasons.<br \/>\nSources on the spot say that Marora would have been killed because he was suspected of practicing witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative and security sources in Rumonge commune indicate that a decomposing body of a man was recovered on Saturday 18 January in Murembwe River, in Mutambara locality in Gatete area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The corpse bore traces of blows received on the head,&#8221; sources on the spot report.<br \/>\nThe victim was not identified and was buried along the Murembwe River.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Rumonge and Bururi provinces in the south of Burundi are concerned about the corpses that have been discovered in recent days in this region.<br \/>\nThey ask security officials to conduct thorough investigation to identify the motives behind these killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead body was found on the morning of 22 January in Lake Tanganyika. The deputy chairman of the Burundian association of fishermen operating in Lake Tanganyika says the victim is a fisherman called Stanislas Ntikarahera. He had gone missing since the night of 19 January. \u201cHe was reported missing while he had gone fishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[113,1041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002"}],"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=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15003,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/15003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}