{"id":3499,"date":"2016-08-11T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:18:16","slug":"total-panic-among-kinindo-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/total-panic-among-kinindo-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Total panic among Kinindo residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3500\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3500\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/avenue-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"street commonly called \u201cKuba Chinois\u201d: where the victim was attacked \" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/avenue-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/avenue-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/avenue-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">street commonly called \u201cKuba Chinois\u201d: where the victim was attacked<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn the early morning of 9th August, we saw a car that seemed to be abandoned in a gutter on the street commonly called \u201cKuba chinois\u201d in Kinindo area, south of Bujumbura. We were surprised because we didn\u2019t know what had happened,\u201d said a shopkeeper met there.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that they finally heard that an inhabitant from the same locality was ambushed by a group of at least seven persons armed with machetes on the same street while going home in the night. The victim was able to escape but left his car in the street. \u201cHe was saved by private security agents from that locality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The same case was also reported in Kibenga neighborhood in Kinindo. \u201cA Kibenga resident was attacked by armed people not yet identified. The victim was going home in the middle of the night. Criminals injured him on the head and stole him all his money and mobile phone,\u201d said N.S a Kibenga resident.<\/p>\n<p>The same source deplores the fact that these days, some people from Kinindo can no longer get out of their houses after 22hrs for fear of possible attacks in the street. \u201cWe are not safe at all; we are worried about our families.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing is done immediately those criminals will start to break in and steal or kill people,\u201d worries N.S<\/p>\n<p>The Burundian police say they are aware of those criminal acts. \u201cWe have already recorded two or three cases of attacks in the south of Bujumbura, especially in Kinindo area\u201d, says Pierre Nkurikiye, the spokesman of the Burundian police. He reassures the population in that locality that effective measures are being taken to combat such crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the early morning of 9th August, we saw a car that seemed to be abandoned in a gutter on the street commonly called \u201cKuba chinois\u201d in Kinindo area, south of Bujumbura. We were surprised because we didn\u2019t know what had happened,\u201d said a shopkeeper met there. He explained that they finally heard that an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[731,730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499"}],"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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}