{"id":16326,"date":"2020-06-09T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16326"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:06:28","slug":"burundi-president-dead-due-to-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-president-dead-due-to-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi President dead due to heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Spokesman for the Burundian government says President Pierre Nkurunziza died at \u201cNatwe Turashoboye\u201d Hospital in Karusi Province in the afternoon of June 8.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12604\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12604\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pierre-Nkurunziza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pierre-Nkurunziza.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pierre-Nkurunziza-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pierre-Nkurunziza-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pierre-Nkurunziza-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Pierre Nkurunziza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a statement issued this June 9, Prosper Ntahorwamiye says President Nkurunziza felt discomfort in the night of June 6 and quickly went to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince June 7, his health improved and he spoke with the people who were near him. Surprisingly, in the afternoon of June 8, his health condition suddenly changed due to a heart attack,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundian government urges the people to remain serene. \u201cThe government grants seven days of mourning starting from June 9,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Nkurunziza was the President of Burundi since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Evariste Ndayishimiye was elected to succeed him in the general elections held on May 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Spokesman for the Burundian government says President Pierre Nkurunziza died at \u201cNatwe Turashoboye\u201d Hospital in Karusi Province in the afternoon of June 8. In a statement issued this June 9, Prosper Ntahorwamiye says President Nkurunziza felt discomfort in the night of June 6 and quickly went to the hospital for treatment. \u201cSince June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16328,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions\/16328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}